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...involve one weekly round-trip flight each (two a week during the summer season) by Pan American World Airways and Aeroflot, the U.S.S.R.'s government-owned airline. Though U.S. and Soviet officials agreed more than a year ago to start such flights, the Russians were understandably reluctant to pit their obsolescent turboprop TU-114s against the much faster (600 m.p.h.) Boeing 707-320C jetliners that Pan Am plans to use on the runs. The IL-62, with a 560-m.p.h. cruising speed only slightly slower than the Boeing, was the obvious Soviet answer, but it had been beset...
...love feast for the traditionalist who prefers bombast in Wagner. The five-hour morality saga of human love in conflict with divine power-and of divinity in conflict with itself-has hardly ever sounded so subdued and lyrical. Without the need to outshout torrents of sound from the pit, the singers often performed at little above normal conversational tones...
Religious symbolism is an undercurrent throughout the film. Crosses abound: the final overhead shot of a cross-roads, a photograph ripped in the shape of a cross, Luke sprawling crucified in a pit-grave...
Quick to the pit not past, darling, we verge...
There are those who hold that the World Series is one of the most exquisite tortures devised by man. Take two baseball teams, put them through a grueling, 162-game pennant race, then pit them against one another in a short, four-out-of-seven series with the world championship riding on the outcome. No wonder the hapless Los Angeles Dodgers committed six errors in one game last year, three of them by Outfielder Willie Davis. And yet more often than not, all the fierce pressure produces some of the year's best baseball and brightest heroes...