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...troops, police and security agents around the city; helicopters whirred FABRY overhead, and sentries dotted the rooftops along the illustrious visitor's route. In 30 hectic hours, De Gaulle made no fewer than nine public appearances; with remarkable stamina for a man of 73, he visited the tomb of Simón Bolívar, spoke before members of Congress, accepted Venezuela's gold-chained Order of the Liberator, and bestowed the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Leoni...
...matters. She is beaten, jeered at, and finally led to the altar as if she were a schoolgirl dragged to stage center of a savage burlesque. In a grim postscript, the camera cuts from the stricken Agnese to mock the words "Honor and Family" on a nobleman's tomb...
...sandwiched between two sections of Prokofiev's score. And while it seems terribly clever to have appropriate readings with the music, I really don't think the performance demonstrated the relevance of one to the other; the only "scene" which came off effectively was the closing one in the tomb--in which the music does convey beautifully the mood of Shakespeare's words...
...monastery in England particularly led outbreaks against the Jews. It was the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, the holy tomb of the royal martyr killed in 870 by pagan Danes when he refused to recant Christianity. Stylistic links between the cross and the richly illuminated Bury Bible, created during the 1130s, led Curator Hoving to the abbey...
...This is Radio Free Cuba, the anti-Communist voice of Cuba broadcasting on the 40-meter band. Worker, militiaman, rebel soldier, radio ham-help topple the despot! Close ranks so that the fatherland, today bloodied by Russian imperialism, becomes the tomb of Communism in America. This is Radio Free Cuba transmitting from a point in Cuban territory...