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RONALD DELLUMS, 35, Democrat, Calif., is an Afro-topped and bell-bottomed radical black who comes to Congress "to legitimize the protests of the young people and blacks." An exMarine, former psychiatric social worker and Berkeley city councilman, he will stand out sharply, but warns: "I'm not here as some curiosity. I've got some heavy things going on in my head...
That is not what No, No Nanette does, but nostalgia is the impetus of the evening. Nostalgia is rampant in the presence of Ruby Keeler, 60, who emerges as a warmly appealing personality and dances with a valiant nimbleness. Nostalgia propels the tap-Rockette sequences of the Busby Berkeley chorus, with its mass assembly-line dance routines supervised by the 75-year...
...himself. Even though No, No Nanette dates from 1925, the show more properly marks a reunion between Keeler and Berkeley, who in the early Depression era collaborated on such Warner Bros, extravaganzas as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and a spate of other Late Late Show favorites. Ruby has spent 30 retirement years in the wings, most of the time happily married to an industrial builder. But the roar of the greasepaint has drawn her irresistibly back to Broadway, where she started her career at the age of 13 in the chorus of a musical called...
DEALING or THE BERKELEY-TO-BOSTON FORTY-BRICK LOST-BAG BLUES by "Michael Douglas." 222 pages. Knopf...
Means of Escape. Their narrator-hero, Peter Harkness, is a product of the affluent suburbs, a student at Harvard and a "good head." The story starts with his flying trip to Berkeley to pick up ten bricks of righteous grass. From there, the plot hurtles forward with pace, plausibility and a cast that would do credit to an Ian Fleming thriller. Meet Musty the connection, who regularly runs 2,000 kilos of pot-no more, no less-from Mexico to California; John Thayer Hartnup III, Harvard's richest student and biggest dealer; Sukie, of the long legs and golden...