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...craft is designed to carry up to 94 passengers, including the President, his top aides, the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, intelligence officers, weapons and electronics experts, Secret Service men and the flight crew. Just under the cock pit is a small, windowless, gold-carpeted room, where the President and up to three other people - the ultimate elite of the ultimate holocaust - could in total privacy direct the next moves in World...
...that too, although he has been given some splendid singing actresses to work with - Régine Crespin, Shirley Verrett, Betsy Norden, Maria Ewing. As Blanche, the rich-voiced Ewing emerges as a genuine comer in her blend of inner anguish and, at the end, heroic resolve. In the pit, French Conductor Michel Plasson shapes the music with enough loving deftness to underscore the fact that Dialogues is one of the few masterpieces of 20th century opera...
Fellini's visual dramatics are alternately hilarious, grotesque or ritualistic. Every situation, every object, every character is extreme. One court is full of unbelievably rich, unbelievably ugly old duchesses, another revolves around a loathsome insect-like homosexual, the epitome of perversion. A third is the scene of bear-pit debauchery; here Casanova wins this contest: how many times can you came in an hour of fucking...
Sure, it was a thrill and a high for my old teacher to stand up on a French hillside with his rifle sight pressed tight against his eye and pit his life against another. And when he told his story, he always added in a low voice that he was very much afraid...
...overhead lifts of every variety, and many florid codas. In spirit, Baryshnikov echoes New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins. Fluent lyrical lines are buoyed up by the current of the music. Like Robbins, too, he sometimes descends into Broadway kitsch; a clash of cymbals in the orchestra pit invariably signaled a showy lift onstage. The audience adored...