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Faust's characters frequently define themselves through movie references. Much of the novel, in fact, could be regarded as a highly inventive, sardonic paraphrasing of Zulu, a 1964 Technicolor extravaganza about the bloody exertions of a British outpost to defend itself against human waves of frenzied black warriors. This particularly holds for the novel's ending, a melodramatic surrealization of a ghetto uprising...
...right answer is No. 5. In this, the 100th year of the road show originated by Phineas T. Barnum, the Ringling Brothers extravaganza is so healthy that it is actually a six-ring circus-two separate, full-scale circuses traveling two different itineraries. Last week the "Blue company" was playing Madison Square Garden while the "Red company" was packing them in in Birmingham. Each, naturally, was billed as "The Greatest Show on Earth...
Flit Guns. Cincinnati citizens turned the two-night extravaganza into a community project. The Minsky show was staged in the nearby Shubert Theater, and post-performance parties were thrown at the Gayety. Some 100 lady volunteers scrubbed away part of the Gayety's grime and even painted over the most unsavory washroom graffiti. Sixty years of libidinous musk was impossible to eradicate, however; before the opening-night party, Flit guns filled with Nettie Rosenstein perfume were distributed among the ladies...
...throbs with life. After only four weeks, the turnstiles at the 815-acre, 73-nation exhibit have clicked off 8,500,000 visitors. The one-day high: 441,000, about equal to the entire population of Buffalo, N.Y. Before the rising sun sets on the 183-day extravaganza, some 50 million Japanese (plus 1,000,000 foreigners) are expected to have visited the grounds. Without a doubt, Expo '70 will be one of the most popular world's fairs in history...
...shorteomings of Pudding books rarely destroy Pudding shows, and this is one tradition which this year's extravaganza has mercifully continued. Page Grubb and Don Wilkins have conspired in concocting music and lyrics which are always competent and occasionally inspired. Grubb's elegantly arranged "Keep Your Hands Off My Hero." and Wilkins' trenchant "This is the Big Time" almost rescue the show. Cheryl McFadden's choreography is shaky in the opening scenes, but produces a particularly dazzling kick-line of glittering green "Grizzlies" toward the end of the first act. Beoeulf's costumes and sets produce the usual spectacular effects...