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...rightly employs a warm, mellow glow only once--for Duncan's arrival at Inverness Castle. She makes some use of a follow-spot, but it is never obtrusive in musical-comedy fashion. Many of her effects would be impossible without the marvelous unit set designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian--two converging cavernous walls of shiny but unsmooth silver, parts of which can swing in; and, hovering overhead, a structure suggestive of some enormous gray mythic bat, through whose wings lights sometimes filter. Ter-Arutunian also designed the costumes, which belong to no one period. For the most part they...
...railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners at last gave up, and offered to sell the operation to the highest bidder...
...ONLY LIVE TWICE. Sean Connery is back as Agent 007, this time blowing up a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. haunt hidden in the cra ter of a Japanese volcano. But the Bonds -which have grossed $125 million to date -are beginning to tarnish a bit around their gilt edges...
...worked his way up through the ranks to become a marshal in the Red army. As Malinovsky's stand-in for the past ten years, he became proficient in the art of rocket rattling, in 1963 even claimed that "Soviet rockets can reach Polaris bases no mat ter where they are." For the past seven years, Grechko has doubled as supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact ar mies, a post that the Kremlin last week gave to another Russian general. Grechko is something of a political hero as well: among the eight rows of medals on his chest...
Everywhere, ongoing fads are picking up momentum. Among the campus set, wall posters depicting its heroes and anti-heroes are bigger than ever. "When wa-,j#^ '" " ter is boiling, it's hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit...