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...Sultan of Turkey and numerous special interest groups (including the Jews of Frankfurt). They were accompanied by an extravagant collection of wives, mistresses and servants, and so much time was spent at entertainments that the Congress never shed its image as, in Lord Byron's phrase, "that base pageant...
There is always a place for beauty, and America can use it now more than ever. I sometimes hear criticisms that the contestants at the Miss America Pageant are beautiful only on the surface, but I don't accept that. Besides, seeing beautiful girls in a kind of Cinderella setting is something we can and should enjoy without having to ask if it proves anything. We are trying to prove ourselves to death...
...version, one can question the Bolshoi's steadfast adherence to the gaudy Rimsky-Korsakov re-orchestration. The Met-Mussorgsky rendering makes Boris the protagonist in a true psychological drama; the Bol-shoi-Rimsky production, virtually unchanged for 28 years, makes him more the central figure in a historical pageant. His fellow 17th century Russians emerge, as it were, frieze-dried...
...WIND AND THE LION. A rambunctious, romantic pageant, filled with sentimental splendors, all about a brave Berber bandit (Sean Connery) and a beautiful American woman (Candice Bergen) of true grit. Writer-Director John Milius has captured both the sweep and the spirit of such classic adventure romances as Four Feathers...
...usual movie star's catalogue of modest pleasures ready for the press and her public. She fixes Chinese dinners in a wok, maintains a menagerie of six cats, and composes country-and-western tunes. (She sings three of her songs in Robert Altman's upcoming C & W pageant Nashville...