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...make the Cuban Revolution. We stayed at the University of Santiago de Cuba for four days in a dorm with female medical students who couldn't understand how Americans in the U.S. could tolerate having to pay for medical care and medicines. We visited a new housing project with pastel-colored pre-fabricated panels, a free day-care center like those all over Cuba where infants from the age of 45 days are cared for while their parents work, and a primary school on the grounds of the project. As in all housing built by the Revolution...
...mile-high Nepalese capital of Katmandu has ever forgotten the lavish coronation of bean-shaped King Mahendra in 1956, when the tiny Himalayan country imported 40 taxicabs, 130 Indian waiters, and everything from pastel bathtubs to Coca-Cola. Now the Nepalese are at it again, this time with a well-publicized royal wedding, billed as one of the most lavish Hindu nuptial ceremonies in history...
Music fans who turned up at record stores to buy The Band's first album, Big Pink, were confronted by a rather odd but decidedly cheerful slip case. On one side were some pastel-colored creatures purporting to be The Band. Though it seemed clear that they had been created by somebody's gifted kindergarten son, the credit line truthfully assigned the artistry to Bob Dylan. On the inside cover, a phalanx of figures appeared?some 35 in all?who turned out to be The Band, backed by most of the members of their respective families. It is characteristic...
...perpetual murmuring of a soul in reverie. At best, this approach makes Debussy into an intriguing original of French music. At worst, it produces a kind of clair de lunacy: conductors seem to be using a stick of incense rather than a baton, and listeners are enveloped in a pastel effulgence of perfumed sound...
Director Mark Rydell (The Fox) carefully and lovingly reconstructs the turn-of-the-century South, and his reconstruction-perhaps a shade too soft of focus and rich of pastel-remains affectionate and without condescension throughout. The performers are uniformly excellent, with a special nod to young Mr. Vogel and Will Geer, who at film's end delivers a cautionary lesson to a stolid, recalcitrant Lucius in his best grandfatherly tones: "A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he didn't instigate them himself, didn...