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...commemorate the birth of Jesus, 250 Lisu tribesmen in Thailand's mountainous Chiang Rai province will assemble this week for three days of prayer and movies about Christ. In Sarawak, a Malaysian province on the island of Borneo, Dyak tribesmen one generation removed from head-hunting will gather in longhouses along the turbid Rajang River for caroling. Similar scenes will take place in impoverished villages in Guatemala, Brazil, Botswana and India. In many cases, the celebrations will be organized and guided by Western missionaries. Says Timothy
...film version in 1948. Tallulah Bankhead brought it to Broadway in 1947 (but without her original costar, the young Marlon Brando). Thirty years later, Monica Vitti, whom Antonioni had made a star with L 'Avventura, would call on her old mentor to collaborate on the project for RAI, the Italian television network. But Antonioni saw no challenge in restaging the play. Instead, he would shoot the production on videotape, and then transfer it to film-and, in the process, transform the story into a meditation on the incestuous links among the performing arts...
...Marsh Clark discovered that food is so scarce that even Khmer Rouge soldiers are going hungry. ''We crossed a narrow stream that marks the border by walking across a narrow log bridge,'' reported Clark. ''Then we moved cautiously into the village of Ban Rai Kluay, where 5,800 soldiers and civilians once camped. We found only 25 people. Most of them were soldiers too ill to move across the border into Thailand. Their situation underscores the sad state of Pol Pot's army, which in the area we visited, at least, is reduced...
...captured Moro and a handbill warning that he would be subjected to a "people's trial." The typewritten flyer, emblazoned with the awkward five-pointed Red Brigades star, was sent mysteriously to Rome's daily Il Messaggero and left in a phone booth near the RAI state-run TV headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped plan Moro's abduction. Noting the similarities to the kidnaping last September of Industrialist Hanns...
Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (assorted soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting; Seraphim, 19 LPs, $53.98). With Beethoven and Brahms, Furtwängler could be infuriatingly eccentric. When he was conducting Wagner, though, his stately, expansive, analytic style produced performances that were ingeniously congruent with the composer's convoluted purpose. Drawn from a 1953 series of radio broadcasts from Rome in mono sound that ranges from only dim to adequate, this is a Ring that every Wagnerian will at least want to hear, and probably own as a low-priced...