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...mostly in Harryhausen's nifty-creaky beasties, but these scenes consume perhaps 15 mins. of a two-hr. movie. The rest is a botch, as storytelling or spectacle. First we're up on Olympus in the company of some swank Brit actors - Laurence Olivier as Zeus, Claire Bloom as Hera, Maggie Smith as Thetis - whose contempt for the material, and for themselves for taking this rich but demeaning payday, deprives their readings of either the sizzle of high drama or the florid flounce of high camp. Then we're on earth, in Argos, where the half-god Perseus, Zeus' bastard...
...home. The light music conveyed none of the majesty the Sun God normally evokes, and although Shee did his best with Balanchine’s choreography and Watts’s staging, his Apollo seemed more like a drunken Zeus after a rough-and-tumble night with Hera. “Lamentation” was the defining piece of the evening. Although the program describes “Lamentation” as a general “dance of sorrows,” soloist Dakin’s interpretation of Martha Graham’s original 1930 choreography and costumes...
...athletes who paraded into the stadium to begin the women's morning qualification competition entered through a 2000-year-old archway from a "holding area" beyond the stadium that houses the ruins of temples to Hera and Zeus the Olympian. In ancient days, of course, women had been excluded from the games as spectators, let alone competitors, under penalty of death. At 8:30 a.m., American Kristin Heaston shot her first of three qualifying puts to become the first woman ever to compete at Olympia. When later approached, as she sat on the lawn watching the men compete...
...Staff writer Hera A. Abbasi can be reached at abbasi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Hera A. Abbasi can be reached at abbasi@fas.harvard.edu...