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...must be on an equal footing with the battle against racial oppression. "A lot of black brothers and sisters think talking about homophobia and sexism will dilute the attack on racism," says West. "But black culture is unimaginable without James Baldwin, the poet Audre Lorde or ((civil rights activist)) Bayard Rustin, and I won't even begin to talk about black gay brothers and sisters and the role they play in the music of the black church." As for sexism, says West, "for too long, black brothers have been beating up black sisters just like white policemen beat up Rodney...
...1970s were promising years. Soaring oil prices prompted industry to search seriously for alternative energy sources. Otisca's first pilot project was done with Island Creek Coal Co. -- a 15-ton-per-hr. operation in Bayard, W. Va., at the headwaters of the Potomac. Smith and Keller also did some early business with General Public Utilities in western Pennsylvania, until the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster thoroughly distracted GPU's management...
Good things come to those who wait, however, and the second one-act is a decided improvement on the first. In The Long Christmas Dinner, Thorton Wilder returns to Our Town territory as he examines the progression of time through a series of New England Christmas dinners with the Bayard family. While the moral (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is conventional, a number of strong performances and stark though effective staging immediatly command our attention...
...Long Christmas Dinner boasts several quality performances. Foremost among them are Jodi Kanter's conservative, unintentionally humorous Lucia Bayard and Lithgow's traditional, business-oriented Charles Bayard. Their characters become even more charming as their attitudes become dated. "I hope you didn't waltz, dear," Lucia once declares. And Charles admonishes his son for "making yourself conspicuous at the country club...
...organization secretly enlisted a small-town newspaper publisher to serve as a front man and paid local residents $20 an hour in cash to distribute and collect the ballots. Keith Dinsmore, Gephardt's Iowa communications director, cut the deal with Ken Robinson, publisher of the tiny (circ. 1,500) Bayard News. At a late-afternoon dress rehearsal at the Starlite Village hotel, adjacent to the auditorium, Robinson sat quietly while Dinsmore instructed Drake University students and a handful of other paid recruits on how to poll the 8,000 Democrats expected for the event...