Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bananas, Woody Allen's farce. Central II. 6:30, 10:30. With The Manchurian Candidate, 8. Until...
...poems, Yevtushenko often banters with the audience in adequate English and with natural charm. The overall reaction is either passionate enthusiasm or cold rage. Says Poet Stanley Kunitz: "To reach out to so large an audience has an element of adventure. Extravaganzas relieve the tedium of an age." Poet Allen Ginsberg was inspired to dithyrambics: "He is trying his best to unify Russian-American Soul under the banner of poesy; in heaven, great golden thrones of credit are given for good intentions." In Pittsburgh last week, Yevtushenko's dirge for Allison Krause, one of the victims of the Kent...
...ends, "Oh, Statue of Liberty, raise up/ Your green, drowned woman's face/ Against this death of freedom." McCarthy asked Yevtushenko's translators: "Are we going to be associated with this crap, or shall we leave now?" He compromised by reading one of his own antiwar poems. Allen Tate dismissed Yevtushenko as "a ham actor," whose performances are a "vulgarizing of poetry...
Although the same production staff--Jerry Goldstein and Chris Huston--did both albums, they seem to have gained some measure of experience and have decided to cut the inane gimmicks this time around. The band--Howard Scott, guitar; B.B. Dickerson, bass; Lonnie Jordan, keyboards; Harold Brown, drums; Papa Dee Allen, conga and bongos; Charles Miller, horns; and Lee Oskar, harmonica--also seems to be tighter and more sure of themselves. Even United Artists has gotten itself together and instead of a lot of hype the promo man just handed me the album and said, "Here, you'll like this...
...morning hearing had been scheduled for HSWOC to show cause why it was not guilty of contempt of the restraining order. The defendants named were Stephen R. Domesick, who presented the case of the defendants yesterday afternoon, Kathi Allen and Steven Kehoe. The three are attorneys for HSWOC, which was founded in December as the official bargaining agent of waitresses at Cronin's Restaurant...