Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary Martin and Robert Preston are a team de force in this musical version of The Fourposter...
...deliberations, everyone had done so much private lobbying, a consensus had already emerged. "We'd all been so busy implanting ideas in the minds of others in private conversations," said one delegate, "that we didn't know whether it was finally our idea turning up in another version-or someone else...
...breathtaking showcase of Byzantine opulence, with richly colored frescoes on the multidomed ceiling and an elaborately carved golden throne beneath two 800-lb. chandeliers. In Prokofiev's War and Peace, which ran for four hours the following night and called for 40 soloists even in the condensed version, some scenes were framed in 50-ft. Doric columns inflated with com pressed air, while others featured cracking rifles, flapping flags and rank upon rank of charging soldiers...
Since then, the discarded original version has been performed rarely-and, as far as is known, never in the Western Hemisphere. But two years ago, Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf found a copy of the 1805 score in a Prague bookshop, was struck by its "awe-inspiring" power, and thought it would make an effective concert presentation at the Boston Symphony's summer home at Tanglewood, near Lenox, Mass. Last week, afier Leinsdorf conducted a boldly sculptured, energy-charged U.S. premiere of the work at Tanglewood, it was emphatically clear that he had been right...
Chopper Armor. As protection against shrapnel, which inflicts 80% of all wartime wounds, U.S. troops now wear 10-lb. nylon felt vests. Davis claims that his 8-lb., all-nylon version wards off not only shrapnel, but also direct hits from small arms up to .38 caliber...