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...Growing in Unity." Pope Paul VI and the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury met in a site suitable to the historicity of the encounter: the Sistine Chapel, where Popes are chosen and, upon death, rest in state. Beneath the fading colors of Michelangelo's vision of the Last Judgment, Paul and Canterbury sat on identical red brocade and gilt chairs. Canterbury addressed the Pope as "Your Holiness, dear brother in Christ," and as his main point said: "It is only as the world sees us Christians growing visibly in unity that it will accept through us the divine message...
...Rome, the church's final court of appeals on marital matters. Annulment can be a temptingly clear-cut solution to complex legal and human dilemmas, although sometimes it seems to non-Catholics like a merry-go-round that permits influential Catholics such as Lee Radziwill and Moviemaker Michelangelo Antonioni to shed old spouses and acquire new ones with the approval of the church. Currently, Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman, twice mar ried (to Actresses Nora Ricci and Shelley Winters) and twice civilly divorced, is asking the Rota to annul his church marriage to Ricci on grounds that...
...MICHELANGELO: THE LAST GIANT (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Part 2, the artist's life and work from the time he completed the Sistine Chapel in 1541 to his death in 1564. Jose Ferrer narrates, with Peter Ustinov as the voice of Michelangelo...
Moneymaking Prodigy. He is a figure largely forgotten. On the 100th anniversary of his birth-now being celebrated through the efforts of the vigorous new Busoni Society-Italy's Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni is remembered by the music public as a mere arranger: the man who transcribed Bach's organ music for the pianoforte. In fact, says Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Busoni was "the greatest pianist of his time." Many musicians consider him a titanic technician and volcanically creative interpreter; all agree that his radical re-examination of the instrument and its literature struck a body blow...
...MICHELANGELO: THE LAST GIANT (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* The first of two programs tracing Michelangelo's life through his painting, sculpture, architecture and writing. Color...