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MISS TEEN-AGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). America's teen queen to be crowned in Dallas. Mickey Mantle is one of five judges...
...Nevertheless, with stunning consistency, with the fire and élan of spirits snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life and shown humanity a true and terrifying and yet somehow heartbreakingly beautiful image of itself. They have...
...vast stadium is plunged into darkness. Suddenly its four corners ig nite in a frenzy of fireworks, then rockets burst overhead as an announcer shouts: "Attention, Belo Horizonte. Attention, Brazil. Attention, World. Cristo Total is on the Air!" What follows is a shocker of a religious pageant, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church...
Stronger Stuff. Sister Benedita agrees that her pageant "isn't really religious at all-it's more of a social attack against injustices." She believes she learned about cruelty at the end of the war in Germany. "German and Russian soldiers battled under our noses. When it was all over, I had to identify the dead. There were mounds of corpses, some without heads, and I went through their pockets looking for some information about them. I saw that both sides had families. Both carried religious medals, and both were human...
...dreadful pageant that seems to haunt Novelist-Historian Zoe Oldenbourg began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took the city of Béziers, a bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present-day southern France. Its palaces were rich in art and dominated by the codes of courtly love. Its tongue was a strange and musical dialect that had given the region a flourishing literature of poetry and was to give it a name-Languedoc (for langue d'oc, literally, the language...