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...Neuilly, France. Clair made several English-language movies in the U.S. during World War II, including I Married a Witch (1942) and It Happened Tomorrow (1943), before returning to France to direct films, write novels and in 1973 produce Orphée et Eurydice at the Paris Opéra. Clair once said: "A girl and a gun always succeed. But the great masters D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin never needed that combination. I never did either...
...doctoral dissertation. That arduous experience brought him some renown, because his name was first on the list when Norwegian Explorer Thor Heyerdahl asked Moscow science authorities in 1969 to suggest a Soviet doctor to accompany him and four others on a papyrus-reed boat across the Atlantic. That Ra expedition, in turn, brought him to the attention of the producers of Film Travel Club, who hired him as host in 1973. The next time he set sail with Heyerdahl, on a trip down the Tigris River to the entrance to the Red Sea, Senkevich took his camera with him. Millions...
Next González executed an equally deft pass of the cape. As millions of Spaniards waited at their ra dios, González soberly proceeded to lay out his party's program of government. The shocker: it was hardly socialist at all. Using West Germany as his model, González explained his main thrusts: a mixed economy with little nationalization, a firm commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, Gonz...
...Arts Chamber Orches ra--Joseph Silverstein, violin; works of Vivaldi, Prokofiev, Mozart and McGah; Sanders Theater...
...Christmas children's music goes, this stuff is pretty funky, definitely Motown Santa. Even some semi-'50s tunes. Stevie puts his heart into these songs, singing verses like "pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, ra-pa-pa-pum" on "The Little Drummer Boy" with so much feeling that you almost think he means it. Or on the title cut, where he sings, "This is Santa's big scene. It's Christmas time in the city." Wow. Took my breath away...