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...have their innocence dispelled and their artistic dreams realized. Along the way, however, they must pay a price in the coinage of musical comedy by exchanging cute quips with picturesque minor characters, whirling across the stage in elaborately choreographed dance numbers and belting out songs of unrequited and triumphant love...

Author: By Julia M. Klevin, | Title: Hers And Hers | 12/12/1975 | See Source »

...book also contains some tense, dramatic episodes, for instance, how Ali came to throw his gold medal into the Ohio River. He had been refused a hamburger in a whites only restaurant, shortly after his triumphant homecoming to Louisville, and then was attacked by a band of Naziinsignia-bearing motorcycle hoods who demanded that Ali give them the medal. Ali fought them off, but the whole experience finally sealed his disillusionment with white America...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Winner and Still Champ | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

Ingmar Bergman treats Mozart's opera with spirit, reverence and understanding. In this adaptation of The Magic Flute, the director makes the work his own without ever violating it. Mozart is renewed, enhanced; Bergman is triumphant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sounds and Sweet Airs | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...their first match last year, victory was unjustly torn from the hands of a nearly triumphant Harvard squad by the fickle whims of Fortuna...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Gov Dept. Seeks No Detente With Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

...churches. The fact that thousands of Basques knew no other language was not an issue. On April 26, 1937, the city of Guernica was completely destroyed as more than 2000 people were killed during three hours of constant air attack by German bombers. Franco entered the city triumphant the following...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: The Future of Spain | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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