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...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...
...banquet was just about to start. Striding onstage to his Steinway, he turned to his devoted audience at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall with the suave little bow that he has made on more stages than any other pianist in history. Then Artur Rubinstein addressed himself to the feast: both of the Brahms concertos, either one of which is more than a good night's labor. But his strength and sureness only grew as he played on. Seeing him there, hearing the majestic ring of his music, it was difficult to believe that Rubinstein...
...peasant settles down on the padre's church steps, the city throbs to carnival tempo. It is a feast day. Some newsmen hear of Ze's plight and exploit him in headlines as a Communist agitator, a heretic, a miracle worker; then the pimp instigates a riot that ends in Ze's death. Here, the usual Christ symbolism is seized upon, but Director Anselmo Duarte brings it off feelingly as the sullen, silent crowd carries the dead man in to fulfill his promise...
...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's proper couple feast on make-believe adultery, wrapped in mystery and mockery. Beckett's bodyless trio discusses the pains and reveals the banalities of infidelity...
...Indians are scheduled to meet Harvard tonight in the IAB, and the only way they can avoid losing is to get their team bus snowbound in the hills of New Hampshire. Otherwise, the Crimson should feast on its easiest pickings of the season and roll up Ivy League victory number...