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Oriental acrobats have been the stuff of Western fantasy since Marco Polo included them, along with gems, spices and silks, in his tales about the wonders of the East. Now Westerners are getting a good look at what Marco was talking about in the first North American tour of the acrobatic troupe from the Chinese city of Shenyang. Unless one counts the Chinese Ping Pong team, the Shenyang troupe is China's first cultural export to the U.S. under the exchange agreed to last winter by President Nixon and Chou Enlai. It is a delightful debut, a cross between...
...gall for Englishmen to tell Americans about America. But the English, thank God, have it. In this 13-part series, a coproduction by the BBC and TIME-LIFE Films, they are using it to show a country that, even to Americans, sometimes seems as foreign and fascinating as Marco Polo's Cathay...
...camera Marco Polo is Alistair Cooke, a longtime correspondent of The Guardian and a naturalized American of several decades. This is not dramatized history, with costumed actors declaiming famous texts. The images are montages of old photos, documents and engravings, alternated with footage of historic settings. Thus, though the words are Cooke's, the real narrator is the camera, which records not only the natural and man-made beauty of America but also much of its human ugliness. (In an upcoming episode, the camera glides behind the porticoes of the ante-bellum South to visit the slave quarters, making...
...Marco Island...
According to Marco Turbovitch, press secretary for the Kerry campaign. Kerry and Cronin ran "a dead heat" in Lowell. Lowell had been expected to go solidly for Kerry...