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Fifteen Demands. The outbreak began in an auditorium at the hub of the sprawling, X-shaped penitentiary. A few more than 550 of Rahway's 1,143 prisoners were attending a regular movie screening on Thanksgiving Eve. Making It had just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within...
Wilson was interrupted at several points in his address by hecklers questioning his government's activities in Northern Ireland, Biafra and Hong Kong. Before the speech several members of Harvard-Radcliffe and Tufts SDS were ejected from the lobby of Cohen Auditorium by plainclothes police...
Sills is both a born actress and a highly developed one; her keen awareness of what every move looks like from the auditorium enables her to capitalize on even her shortcomings (which include a tall and outsize frame). Swinging her generous hips through an Oriental dance in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or, she even looks sexy in a Mae West sort of way. Sutherland (with an equally tall and outsize frame) has worked hard to make herself into an acceptable actress, but her stage temperament is essentially a stolid one. Usually she gets her best effects...
Soon afterwards, Kramer was led upstairs to the main auditorium of the Spingold Theater (which looks as rich as it sounds). About thirty people there had been watching an assemblage of film clips hyped by Columbia as a "Kramer retrospective". Kramer was showing a little more sweat on his brow...
Sometimes the contradictions at the conference were utterly blatant. The large sessions took place in Dow Auditorium, Right...