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Manifestations, Arthur Mitchell's first new ballet in five years, was the choreographic focal point on opening night. Under a canopy of stars in a silver Eden, Eve sprang from the stomach of Adam, reclining on aluminum mounds. The audience gasped with pleasure as tiny Susan Lovelle unfolded on point while Homer Bryant turned her around slowly on one leg like a potter molding clay on his wheel. But it was willowy Lydia Abarca, a dancer of pristine lyricism, and Paul Russell, all crackling magnetic energy, who were the undisputed stars of the evening. In William Dollar...
Brother Can You Spare A Dime? emerges as a realistic view of American life in the 1930s. But Mora jaundices his collection of Depression-era vignettes by his exaggeration of Hollywood as the focal point of the American consciousness. The film is an expressive view of the matrix of despair, apathy and frivolity that characterized. American 1930s. But the impressionistic documentary is weakened by the obscurity of many of the scenes. Mora has created an imposing cinematic edifice, yet concealed its foundations from his audience...
Marching military bands and ranks of dancing children gave Sihanouk a big send-off from Peking. The welcome in Phnom-Penh was equally effusive. Cheering crowds of Khmer Rouge soldiers, Buddhist monks, civil servants and workers greeted the royal entourage at the recently repaired Pochentong Airport, focal point of last April's Communist siege of the capital. Clad in a black, tunic-style Chinese suit, Sihanouk saluted the flag, reviewed the troops and then proceeded by motorcade to the royal palace in Phnom-Penh...
...brass), while Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov praises the people and plots the invader's doom ("The beast will be wounded with all the strength of Russia"). There is little continuity in the libretto written by Prokofiev and his second wife. Prokofiev was dramatizing only a series of focal points in the story that all his audiences know. In a final chorus ("We went to battle for our fatherland"), the Russian people declare themselves the victors and heroes of the opera...
Whitlam said in his speech that he commends "this proposal to the great companies and corporations--which operate in the two countries. Some of them, I trust, will see the chair as a focal point for further research endowments in their own names in disciplines of special interest to them...