Word: bedford
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...loved the stage; British paintings like Gallery of the Old Bedford treat the worn, overloaded gilt-and-mirror interiors with the seriousness another artist might have brought to an Italian church. Since Sickert had spent time in Venice, there may be some subliminal connection between the clusters of audience in derby hats, leaning precariously from the balconies and reflected in the mirrors, and the more elegant crowds that thronged Tiepolo's ceilings. Sickert never condescended, and his portraits of the now forgotten stars of this dead form of entertainment are done with fine straightforwardness: The Lion Comique, 1887 (patter singers...
Richard Nelson's quasi-historical piece about competing 19th century acting troupes, one led by a Briton and the other by an American, had moody staging by Jack O'Brien, three superb performances (by Brian Bedford, Victor Garber and Zjelko Ivanek) and an unjustly brief life on Broadway...
...YEAR-OLD MAN IN BEDFORD, PENN., NO DOUBT fretted when he was arrested last summer for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. Little did he know that the presiding judge on his case could literally wash that charge right out of his hair. District Judge Charles Guyer offered the defendant leniency if he let the judge shampoo his hair. Further, suggested His Honor, the young man could get even more leniency if he brought in friends for a wash and rinse as well. The accused did bring two friends; they were state troopers who arrested Guyer as soon as they were...
Debra Robbin, former director of the New Bedford Women's Center, said a woman is raped every six minutes...
Like Roxbury and Dorchester and other urban ghettoes across America, East New York sits far away from the glitter of the center of the city. The term "inner city" is ironic--ghettoes like East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant and Jamaica, Queens in Brooklyn are about as far away as one can get from the inner city without actually leaving the metropolitan area. They're isolated, lonely places whose evils and troubles are not permitted to touch the sanctity of the true "inner city...