Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they undertake a seasonal migration over a most unrelenting course. In Paris, their primary base, they rent from the city a handsome villa on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, where Charles de Gaulle lived as Premier just after World War II. Now it is filled with the superb and costly bibelots that the duke inherited from his ancestors. For weekends and warm weather, the Windsors have rebuilt as a country house an old mill in the valley of the Chevreuse near Paris. There the duke is most at home, working alongside three professional gardeners among his flowers...
...Baker and Doug Hardin set a hard pace in the two mile but were overtaken in the last two laps by John Lawlor of Navy and Jim Warner of Army. Baker and Hardin recorded superb times of 8:56 and 9:02. Lawlor's 8:53 broke the Heptagonal record, one hour after he won the mile...
...burnished to the glow it had under Mengelberg, and in some of the repertory he has not yet overcome a faint tendency toward coolness and restraint. But when he conducts the full, darkly romantic music that seems to echo the Dutch temperament-Mahler or Bruckner, for example-he is superb...
...with utter fidelity to military fact, the author meticulously ticks off the manner in which each man dies. The Cauldron may not win a prize as high art, but as an unsparing and authentic eyewitness account of the sights and sounds and pains of war, it is a bitterly superb tale...
...Deitch is superb as Oberon, and Amanda Vaill is excellent as his Titania. Their scenes are the best in the play, if one overlooks the various spirits clogging the stage...