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SUDAN. Some shoebill storks imported from the Sudan make like clowns, but the main attention-getter here is a fragile Madonna and Child painted on the mud walls of a church around the 8th century and discovered last year by U.N. archaeologists scurrying to preserve antiquities from the Aswan Dam backwaters...
...ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is superb as a scraggly 19th century revolutionary in Director Mario (Big Deal on Madonna Street) Monicelli's timeless, beautifully photographed, warmly human drama about a textile strike in Turin...
...ORGANIZER. Director Mario (Big Deal on Madonna Street) Monicelli's vivid, moving, timelessly beautiful portrait of 19th century Italy comes into sharp focus on Marcello Mastroianni, demonstrating his remarkable versatility as a socialist Savonarola who leads Turin textile workers in a strike that fails...
Fresh Sudanese dates cost 25?, and 50? buys a look at the recently discovered 1,000-year-old Sudanese Madonna. You can watch a New York harnessmaker make a saddle and West Virginians blow glass. At the Singer exhibit, you can see jeweled woolen fabrics that cost $1,200 a yard. You can walk through the African pavilion, see Watusi dancers and royal Burundi drummers and have your eyes opened to a dozen nations you never knew existed, and a year or so ago you were right...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Something for everyone: Rembrandt's paintings and prints; Raphael's long-lost drawing of Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist; Wedgwood's revolutionary creamware; English jugs transfer-printed with American heroes and history; the architectural fantasies of previous world's fairs; Dutch, Flemish and French paintings...