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After Eden, the film follows the baffling genealogy of Genesis from Cain and Abel, through Noah, to the story of Abraham. Lineage becomes a problem, and at one point the burgeoning family of man crowds the screen with something resembling a pyramid of Chinese acrobats. Huston plays Noah, mugging simplicity as he takes his orders from the Almighty, cramming in a lot of low comedy aboard the Ark and looking sorely tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou...
...spectacle. The night belonged to Franco Zeffirelli, who designed the sets and costumes and directed the whole shebang. His scenery was framed and overhung with scrims that looked like free-form Venetian blinds-around and through which appeared massed armies, a massive moon, a massive sphinx, a massive pyramid, a massive throne, and just about every other eye popper that Cecil B. de Zeffirelli could imagine, not forgetting three live horses, three live goats, one live camel, and three fake asps...
Playing Cleopatra, Soprano Leontyne Price was so heavily costumed in bolts of sparkling cloth that she looked like a junior-sized pyramid herself; it was a wonder that she eould sing at all, though sing she did, and her burnished voice never sounded better. At the top of their form, too, were Basso Justino Diaz as Antony and Tenor Thomas as Caesar. Composer Barber's setting for Shakespeare's text was notable chiefly for an orchestration built of conflict ing clouds of moody, often eerie thun-derbursts of sound, punctuated with enough jutting exclamations of dissonance to label...
...weeks preceding the debut of Antony and Cleopatra, Bing worked a 16-hour day instead of his usual 14. He usually started his days with an assault on a pyramid of mail, meanwhile giving orders over his intercom system and fielding rapid-fire phone calls: "Hello. Yes. No. Tomorrow. Fine. Goodbye." Then, dictating memos over his shoulder, he would go off on his rounds, turning up onstage to admonish a stagehand ("Don't smoke on our stage, please"), switching off the lights in sub-basement storage rooms, climbing into the uppermost rafters to check on a special staging effect...
Hardtop v. Greensward. "Our parks," Hoving found, "have remained lifelessly suspended in time like the Pyramid of Cheops." Says Hoving: " 'Parks are for people' is the most leaden statement, but it's true." And people need recreation. "Recreational facilities should have a flair," Hoving believes. "They should be spontaneous, offbeat, with a slight tinge of potlatch-letting everything go." Under Hoving, the Parks Department sponsored a Happening in which everyone painted anything on yards and yards of white canvas. When he found that a hill left during construction was the favorite area for boys in one park...