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Spartacus (1960). An early Kubrick film with plenty of pomp, violence and massive crowd scenes. Screenplay by black-listed writer Dalton Trumbo. With Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov. Ch. 56, 8 p.m. Color, 3 3/4 hours...
Chess Games. The streets and taverns of 17th century Paris here teem with vignettes of squalor (two men playing a seesaw game over a fire for a prize of food) that make their own comment set against the distant pomp of the royal court. The musketeers move through both these worlds with equal ease, yet are part of neither. Their sworn allegiance is to the King, Louis XIII, and against Richelieu, but they are men of pride. Their greatest battle and concern are simply to stay alive. For though they would call themselves their own men, they belong to Louis...
Stewart, the rooster of vaudeville rock, prances about the stage in pomp and plumage. His costume includes a baby blue pantsuit with flowered muffler, a yellow negligee and gold toreador pants with a white sleeveless top. In order to maintain his concert pace, Stewart has to keep himself in top physical trim; he follows a preperformance regimen of steam bath, black coffee and port-and-brandy. At a recent show in Anaheim, Calif., he wiggled his way through Maggie May and Every Picture Tells a Story, and later, during an instrumental break, backstagers could see him gasping and wheezing behind...
Then after all the pomp and circumstance of Commencement dies away the whole process of selecting honorary degree recipients begins once again. It is, in a University as gossip-prone as Harvard, perhaps most noteworthy for the total secrecy in which it is conducted; only a small handful of University higher-ups know before Commencement who will get the degrees...
When he first ruled Argentina, Juan Perón doted on Latin pomp and dictatorial ceremony. Thus it might have been expected that his inauguration as President last week, after nearly 18 years of exile, would be celebrated with triumphal parades and week-long fiestas. Instead, Peron, 78, and his Vice President, Wife Isabelita, 42, took office with military efficiency-and security...