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...Caravan production are obviously talented but don't even try to be sordid. You would be glad to have Ida Beecher's Mrs. Peachum as your grandmother; she plays the kind old lady to perfection, but brings an element of benevolence onto Brecht's stage that doesn't belong there...
...Acting President since the death of Mzee (the old man), he won the job, more or less, on the assumption that he would not make too much of it. A member of the minority Kalenjin tribal group, arap Moi will be particularly dependent on three powerful figures who belong to the dominant Kikuyu tribe: Minister of Natural Resources Mbiyu Koinange, 71, Attorney General Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki, 47, whom arap Moi straightaway appointed as his Vice President. That troika, along with Kenyatta, has plotted Kenya's pro-Western, pro-capitalist course for the past several...
...belong to the Rugby Club costs twenty dollars per term. Most of this goes to buying balls and beer, both of which are mandatory before a game can take place. Uniforms and travelling expenses come out of each player's pocket. Among the trips in the last few years have been to Bermuda and new Orleans for Mardi Gras...
...Mexican Americans had less than five years of schooling, compared with 3.6% for the rest of the population. The school dropout rate among chicanos is high (one informed estimate: 42%), and many of those who leave school enroll elsewhere-in youth gangs. An estimated 13,000 young Hispanics belong to such gangs in Los Angeles County alone. Last year there were 69 gang killings...
...Backus and Natalie Schafer, better known as the Howells). There was one good line--Ginger said the tidal wave sounded like a "permanent wave"--but I don't remember the old show having a lot of puns, either. The original was so infantile that at times it seemed to belong to a different universe, like an Ionesco play; on reflection one could almost call some of it "inspired." But Rescue was so forced that it just got boring, which is what the old show never...