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...black woman running for the White House would be a bit far out even in an Allen Drury novel-or so it seemed before Shirley Chisholm came on the scene. Last week, in her Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn with California Representative Ron Dellums at her side, the U.S.'s first black Congresswoman announced her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination-bringing the total number of declared entrants to ten. Why is she running? "To repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for a qualified candidate simply because he is not white or because...
Spotting a black junkie in a Bedford-Stuyvesant bar, Doyle and his partner Buddy Russo run him to the ground, kick him while he's down, and beat his face raw in order to find out who his small-time connection...
Although some peacemaking attempts are still under way, the break is final. How well Jackson will succeed on his new course is uncertain. Says the Rev. William A. Jones Jr., a pastor in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto who has been appointed to take over Jackson's Breadbasket role temporarily: "With his peculiar gifts, he may be able to develop a new instrument that will attract like-minded people. Whether he is giving up a Cadillac for a Rolls-Royce or a Chevy remains to be seen...
...rest of the cast is merely an adjunct to Bedford's performance as Arnolphe. Sharon Smith is appropriately lovely and beguiling as Agnes; David Dukes is appropriately dashing and silly as Horace. Of the others, David Hook is noteworthy as Chrysalde, a friend of Arnolphe's who tries to make him widen his perspective on life. The set is pretty and very functional, and the costumes (who doesn't get a kick out of the 17th century French outfits?) are gorgeous...
...simpler and more universal: love conquers narrowness and selfish obsessions. Moliere's genius is in depicting a character who is the apotheosis of some short-sighted way of looking at the world, and in gleefully and decisively destroying that viewpoint. Arnolphe, though made human and rather sympathetic by Bedford (who is simply too likeable an actor to portray total evil), loses, and deserves to lose; his snivelling retreat while the happy lovers embrace is the high point of the play...