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...stable--sparked by his failure to make love to young girl--that eventually leads him to Dysart's couch. After he has brusquely dismissed the girl out of frustration and shame, the unclothed Strang stands fully erect in the loft of the stable, hurling himself into the now familiar rite of horse adulation. Suffused with ambers and golds, the shot evokes a tinted Renaissance fresco, with the rapturous Strang projecting a seeming embodiment of innocence and worship. But then Strang shatters this almost transcendental effect, suddenly jumping down from the loft and beginning an orgy of violence, where he wantonly...
...Vatican suppressed opposition periodicals. Alessandro Cardinal Barnabo, the tyrannical head of the Propaganda Fide-the Vatican mission office, which then ran church affairs in Asia, Africa and much of the Western Hemisphere as well as the Eastern Rite Uniates-summoned missionary bishops one by one to remind them that they were employed and paid by the papacy...
...music 'corny," Lombardo survived as the last great dance-band leader. His New Year's Eve concerts in New York City, which Began in 1929, became an institution. First on radio, then TV, Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne marked the nation's rite of passage from the old year...
Then, following a ritual as intricate as an Aztec sacrificial rite -and only slightly less colorful -CBS Chairman William Paley met with his top aides. At "Black Rock," CBS'S somber, granite headquarters on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, the troops were told to expect an announcement of executive changes at 3:30 p.m. At 3:30 they were told to wait until 4 -coincidentally when the stock market closed and it would be too late for investors to be react...
...Orchestra into one of the world's great ensembles, he had a more progressive view of contemporary music than either of his two main rivals-Arturo Toscanini in New York and Serge Koussevitsky of the Boston Symphony. He gave the American premieres of both Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Berg's Wozzeck. He was constantly concerned with helping young musicians. That was why, at age 80, he helped to found the American Symphony Orchestra in New York in 1962. He had demanded and received huge salaries in Philadelphia ($110,000 a year at his peak...