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Here, even the ironic title is a dissonant scrape of protest. Based on a woman novelist's diatribe against the double standard in Sweden at the time of World War I, Couples is a flawlessly performed showpiece directed by Mai Zetterling, a former Swedish film star who apparently intends to raise all kinds of hell on the other side of the camera. She begins by corralling three young women in a Stockholm maternity hospital and ends with a long, joyless look at a squalling baby. In the interim, she pours scorn over all the corrupt, vain, stupid and ineffectual...
...national hero cynical South Viet Nam has, is often besieged by admiring youngsters when he goes out in the streets. Sometimes Ky's flair still gets the better of him. On a recent visit to a village just liberated from the Viet Cong, Ky and his wife Mai intended to show their interest in the peasants. Snipers were firing, and it would have worked well, except that Ky and Mai arrived in matching jet-black flight suits, purple scarves, flight boots and blue flying caps. The villagers were struck dumb. "Good God," said a watching American, "they look like...
...Center has been a near-sellout success. Once again the company is what it was intended to be when it was organized 25 years ago -a grand gallery of the dance. From its vast and varied repertory of a hundred ballets, the company staged old classics like La Fille Mai Gardée and Giselle, typical Americana like Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend and Eugene Loring's Billy the Kid, pure abstract dance like George Balanchine's Theme and Variations...
...white mercenaries learned of the trap, cut through the bush and entered the town from the rear. As their skirmish line entered Poko, the whites were surprised to see the Simbas rush toward them jubilantly, their right arms raised in the rebel salute and shouting the rebel yell of "Mai Mulele!" It did not take the mercenaries long to realize that the Simbas took them for Russians, come to fight on their side. The Simbas' disappointment was short lived: the mercenaries gunned them down...
...school art teacher, a job he kept until two years ago. He turned to sculpture in 1949 because "with its denser aspects it is more suitable to my expression, which is often closer to sadness than serenity." His first notable exhibit was in 1956 at the Paris Salon de Mai...