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John H. thus ignited a shopping trend that has shown remarkable staying-power. From Widener Library and Robinson Hall to Loker Commons and the under-construction Barker Center, a sizable check can still buy a little slice of immortality...
Despite these problems, much of Woyzeck is striking and visually transfixing. A scene at the circus has a Barker (D'metruius Conley-Williams) preaching of double-natures, un-idealized reason and the sand dust and slime of man. A drunkard's monologue of earthly evil and the futile existence of man blends the tragic and the absurd. A dance-hall dream of Marie and a Drum Major, complete with droning music, torments Woyzeck and his remembrances...
DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the flashy pitchman relinquished all future income connected with his client. DIED. JULIA BOGGS, 95, party doyenne; in Washington. From the 1940s until 1972, the North Carolina-born Boggs was housekeeping supervisor for the Supreme Court, arranging the Justices' dinners and teas, and later became a behind-the-scenes manager...
...botched punt by Bryan Barker set up New England's early score. Barker took a high snap, then hesitated before trying to run from deep in Jacksonville territory. He was tackled by Larry Whigham...
...adjoining Burr Hall, a library for the African-American Studies Department conveniently opens onto a balcony overlooking the entrance of the Barker Center, with its new handicap-access ramp...