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...insistence that an improper gesture would mar a scene; the actors' gestures were perilously close to woodenness, which is at odds with the demands of the text. The quality of the singing was thoroughly satisfying. Roger Lucas as Pelleas and Barbara Hocher as Melisande were the weakest; Ben Lyon as Golaud was very fine in an extremely taxing role, but Mark Pearson as Arkel was the finest singer of the evening. Cheryl Bibbs as Yniold effectively delivered the crucial line "I must go and tell something to someone," and Jan Curtis as Genevieve provided unfailingly pleasant work...
Warm Walls. The diggers discovered a section of the ancient Vienne-Lyon highway consisting of irregular granite paving stones three feet thick interspersed with limestone blocks. Holes cut in the limestone enabled inspectors to keep an eye on the sewer system underneath. The Romans had also anticipated the roadside refreshment stand by building a bar at the edge of the road, complete with earthen vases in which beverages were kept cool. A chariot driver could pull up to the bar and drink standing up while his horses drank at an adjacent fountain...
...year-old boy, fleeing from police in a town outside Paris, jumped into the Seine and drowned. Enraged, Paris students surged from the Sorbonne and the coffee shops back onto the boulevards, rebuilt barricades and fought an all-night running battle with police. Fighting also erupted in Toulouse, Lyon, St.-Nazaire and the automaking town of Sochaux, where two townspeople were killed. The renewed rioting took a heavy toll of the French economy, stalling the back-to-work movement at a time when 500,000 workers still had not returned to their plants. In his new role as Finance Minister...
...given up in disgust that he found himself the only passenger on an Air France 707 to London. After catching a rare flight to Le Bourget airport, his luck held and he managed to get the last Hertz car available. Then, like his colleagues fanning out from Paris to Lyon to Marseille, Gooding went out to get his first taste of tear gas and to learn that a press brassard on a coat sleeve would be an open invitation to a mauling from the police...
...Paris, and the city authorities sent out emergency calls for doctors to report to the Sorbonne medical school to treat hundreds of wounded rioters and police. All told, 130 policemen and 447 civilians were injured, 795 rioters were arrested. Fighting also broke out in other large French cities, including Lyon, where the first riot death occurred when a police commissioner was crushed in a mob of rampaging students...