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...Come On, Choo Choo!" Florida's six jai alai frontons tempt fans with drinks, dinners, dames-and enough pageantry to make Nero jealous. At the world's biggest (capacity: 6,000) and costliest ($4,500,000) fronton in suburban Miami, customers do not even have to leave their upholstered seats to get taken to the cleaners-pretty girls in green and gold uniforms prance up and down the aisles collecting bets...
...first opera to deal primarily with human rather than mythological character and psychology, set the stage for the bel canto style. But beside Monteverdi's hopped-up humans, his gods look like so many bank clerks. Poppea's action centers on the infatuation of the Roman Emperor Nero with his mistress, Poppea, an affair held in dubious check by Nero's Stoic mentor Seneca. Poppea, slinkily played in Dallas by Patrice Munsel in a white gown slit to the hip, finally turns Nero's golden-curled head, and he orders Seneca to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Nero...
...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...
...note writer is a nameless wanderer on a ship that finally founders in icy seas. The surface of his world is all history, held in an instantaneous, timeless memory where the flight of the Enola Gay over Hiroshima is contemporary with the imprisonment of Galileo, and where, for example, Nero might fiddle while Chicago burns. The depth he contemplates is the inexhaustible profundity of human cruelty. A man's hands are slashed and filled with salt, another's leg is wrenched from its socket by a driven team of horses...
...shot in a different, often bizarre locale-supposedly the terrain covered by "the lively set," whom the show's publicists define as Forddriving youngsters who have outgrown rock 'n' roll. Last week's show had Trumpeter Shorty Rogers at a Nike-Zeus site, Pianist Peter Nero playing beneath a radar scanner, the New Christy Minstrels on the Pacific beach near Los Angeles; also another show starred Ella Fitzgerald. Stan Kenton realized what must have been a lifelong ambition by directing a field of playerless instruments dangling from wires, while the real orchestra...