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...papier-mache Egypt, Zeffirelli had scattered Sphynxes like sugar cubes; amid palm trees, columns, temples and 200-foot-high idols, he had corralled a cast of 600 singers and dancers and ten Berber horses. There were half-naked belly dancers, Nubian slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted green from head to toe. And when Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening...
...light of these Crimson growing pains, M.I.T. should test but not tax Harvard in today's outing. The traditionally inept Engineers lost to mediocre Hofstra earlier in the season. Boasting a stingy secondary but a papier-mache offense, M.I.T. managed only three goals off the Dutchmen while allowing five...
Wilson has challenged the traditional female domination of the Never-Novel, a literary form so named because 1) it must never stray beyond the boundaries of its papier-mché and plaster never-never land, and 2) it must never, never surprise the reader with anything novel. Never-Novelist Wilson qualifies neatly on both points...
...other sport offers so much to so many. Boxing's heroes are papier-mache champions. Hockey is gang warfare, basketball is for gamblers, and Australia is too far to travel to see a decent tennis match. Even baseball, the sportswriters' "national pastime," can be a slow-motion bore: finger resin bag, touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football...
...color. Under the layers of dirt, the restorers gradually revealed the brilliant Tudor blue ("byse") and gold work of the ceiling Wolsey ordered. It displayed the Tudor rose and the white plumes of the Prince of Wales, and it consists of 129 panels made up of a kind of papier-mâché. For the few panels that had been destroyed, the restorers finally came close to duplicating the material. One of its ingredients was goats' hair...