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DENMARK. The modern Danish restaurant has a sumptuous det store kolde bord (cold table) that includes herring, salads, lobster, salmon and eight different meats. The akvavit comes packed in ice - and packs a wallop...
...state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks, who became a millionaire by dipping into the till. His mistake was once inviting General Artur da Costa e Silva to visit his sumptuous apartment, showing off his wardrobe ("Fifty white linen suits alone," he beamed). Came the revolution, and Costa e Silva, now Brazil's hardheaded War Minister, personally entered the banker's name on the purge list...
...Loeb's commencement production of Julius Caesar is, as Brutus might say, indeed ambitious. Director Daniel Seltzer parades a huge cast (playing eighty parts) across the cavernous main stage, dresses them in sumptuous costumes, mixes them together in mob scenes and battles, and supplements it all with a broad range of lighting and sound effects. But if his effort is ambitious, the result is at best uneven; Seltzer's Caesar is at times taut, at times grotesque, most often flat...
...looked, as always, as if he had just risen from a sumptuous and civilized dinner with dear old friends. And, as always, the banquet was just about to start. Striding onstage to his Steinway, he turned to his devoted audience at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall with the suave little bow that he has made on more stages than any other pianist in history. Then Artur Rubinstein addressed himself to the feast: both of the Brahms concertos, either one of which is more than a good night's labor. But his strength and sureness only grew as he played...
...tireless man with scissors. He cuts pictures out of magazines-all kinds of magazines-and stirs them into film clips in a kind of stiff puppet action that writes a curious chapter in the manual of animation. In Skulduggery, Harry Truman comes popping out of the mouth of a sumptuous girl; then a hammer comes out of her nose and knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit. A Merlin-like figure suddenly gets stuck...