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...great storytelling and great acting, this week's finest offering is the 1951 John Huston classic, The African Queen (Winthrop House, Harvard). Screen legend and Dewitt look-alike Humphrey Bogart turns in an Oscar-winning performance as a drunken riverboat captain forced to reckon with the virtue of a beautiful missionary, played by Katherine Hepburn. Shot mostly on location in the Dark Continent, The African Queen proves that, in the hands of a superb director, the simplest plots can become high entertainment...
That Carnegie Hall has passed into legend. In its place is a brighter, more brilliant performance space whose sound has a sharper, harder edge. Woodwinds and brass now glitter where once they gleamed. At the same time, cellos and double basses purr where once they roared. Carnegie Hall now sounds crisper, although it still retains much of its fabled warmth. In its new incarnation, it is closer to Boston's lush but clear Symphony Hall than to its former voluptuous self...
...legend goes that Valentine's Day originated in the Dark Ages, when the Bishop of Terani and a priest in Rome were both jailed for their heresies during the prosecution of Claudius the Goth. Both] named Valentine. The two clergymen decided to launch a campaign for their freedom and wrote many letters to citizens. protesting their imprisonment. One of the two men became a saint and the tradition of sending letters on his birthday continued over the ages...
Losing three years ago humanized Conner, at least momentarily, and winning again may amplify his legend incredibly, beyond the wharves to the plains. "The real thing that saved my sanity in '83," he says, "was that in my heart I knew I had done everything I could. But the second thing was the people. After I won the Cup in '80, I received about 100 letters. Out of 200 million people, that isn't very many. In 1983 I got thousands, maybe tens of thousands. If you look at the films after that seventh race, you'll see Dennis standing...
...wily Tim Nettleton is ready to wager a pint of whisky that Dallas will return, inevitably, to the badlands that begot the legend. He bases his confidence on rustic Idaho logic: "You kick a dog in the side, he'll make a big circle, and he'll come home. That's basically what happened to Claude before. He'll get kicked in the side and come home again." When he returns, the law will be ready...