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...floodlights for the trial of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. Now even the cascades of the crystal chandeliers were dimmed, hooded with red and white cheesecloth. At one end a string ensemble played softly. The great and near great of the Kremlin, including Khrushchev, took turns beside the flower-cradled coffin as a guard of honor. Long lines of clerks and students filed slowly by, many of them not quite sure who it was they had been summoned to pay last homage to. In the same hall where Lenin and Stalin had been finally honored lay the mortal remains...
...powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers and Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady...
...Kennedy's seven children have to double up. Because the children spend so much time out of doors, Ethel has made their playroom over into a brightly colored second living room. In every bedroom are bunches of petunias, snapdragons, gladioli and cosmos from the Kennedys' carefully tended flower gardens. At night, hurricane lamps light the dining room...
...dining room. The President's bedroom is off-white with a three-quarter mahogany sleigh bed, a mahogany bureau, and a red and white slipcovered lounge chair; Jackie's bedroom has twin beds, a French desk, and is papered in a mixed pink-on-white flower print. Outdoors, one modern contraption terrifies passersby: a hidden, wired loudspeaker, manned by a security detail, that thunders "What do you want?" at would-be visitors. In spite of Glen Ora's baronial atmosphere, some presidential staffers have complained that it offers no place to loll about during a meeting, except...
...Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...