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Instead, the bare stage was bathed in cobalt blue, and a giant, soft. flower ball was suspended above a bench, which represented Hans Sachs' shop. For the singing contest of Act III, W71eland tried a bullfight effect, with a 50-ft. high amphitheater surrounding a bright yellow ring, in which the singers performed...
...When you pull yourself up by your bootstraps," says Dean McGee, president of Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., "it's like a flower opening up-slowly at first, and then it finally spreads out." A small independent, Kerr-McGee spent 20 years pulling itself up to a $15 million annual business. Then, in the past five years, it trebled in size. Last week, Kerr-McGee spread itself still wider. It put together a combine with uranium ore reserves estimated at some 5,000,000 tons on the Colorado Plateau (total U.S. reserves: 30 million tons), worth...
...days of ruffled-shirt diplomacy, when Talleyrand and Prince Metternich were in 19th century flower, a diplomat needed a backstairs source in the palace, a talent for intrigue and a good cook. Big powers acted in concert, and the small powers were expected to know their place. The financial side of diplomacy was a relatively simple matter of buying allies or buying off potential enemies. In mid-20th century diplomacy, financial dealings must be disguised under such inoffensive names as mutual assistance, economic cooperation or foreign aid, and economic aid has increasingly become regarded as a debt that rich nations...
...dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation at the rude Professor Higgins, touching as she manfully struggles with a mouthful of marbles (when she swallows one, Higgins says cheerily: "Oh, don't worry, I have...
...seven islands are holy land surrounded by the sacred waters of the Ganges. Upon one of the islands lives a naked, nameless holy man, the intimate of eagles and snakes, who radiates well-being and gives out serenity "as a flower gives its scent." Trouble begins when a group of Vaishnavas start to build a religious establishment on one of the islands. After years of privation the holy man has shed the "creed of any religion but he believed as the Hindus do that God is in all things, animate and inanimate, that all things are in God." Because...