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...early 1950s the sales were held in the open air under a tent, the bidders sat on hard wooden chairs, and the average price for a yearling was closer to $5,000. The auctioneer's chant was only occasionally interrupted by Announcer Humphrey Finney. Eyeglasses perched precariously at the end of his nose, he chastised the audience in thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue...
...flaccid heroics of another adventure film. The Red Tent, invite only listlessness. Based on events surrounding the crash of the Italian airship Italia in 1928, the movie spins a meandering tale of arctic survival and rescue. Peter Finch has a nice go at the part of General Umberto Nobile, the expedition commander, and Sean Connery is engaging as the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who died searching for Nobile...
There is some stunningly eerie footage of snowscapes and icebergs, but Mikhail Kalatozov directs his dramatic scenes in the overripe style of the worst pseudoepic Russian film making. The Red Tent (so titled for the makeshift shelter in which the survivors took refuge) at no time does justice to the drama of the subject. Finch and his crew are continually threatened by starvation and frostbite, but sheer boredom somehow seems a more likely fate...
...rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab nationalism...
...promoters wallowed in legal mire. The kids amused themselves by making human mud pies and bathing in the nude. Two youths drowned in the fast-rushing Atchafalaya River. State undercover narcotics agents circulated in the crowd and made more than 100 busts. One youth died in a hospital tent from a drug overdose. Meanwhile, dazed with blistering heat, and stultifying humidity, the estimated 50,000 youths who gathered to see Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian were also choked by dust. For the Woodstock Nation, McCrea was a bleak experience of mud, sweat and tears...