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...Manhattanite Kathryn Bridgman, 25, "Ford exuded the personality of an overcooked noodle." But Bostonian Sam Jones, 28, felt the President "sounded much better than usual." Nettie Goldstein, 63, of Skokie, Ill., dozed through some questions, but what she saw led her to conclude that "they both came off very well." Frank Amarillas, 39, of Douglas, Ariz., disagreed. Said he: "Carter shouldn't grin because it's a gentlemen's debate. Grinning hurt...
...PERFORMANCE May 2 presented some shorter, more sketchy student works. "American Gothic" choreographed and danced by Arthur Bridgman and Eugenie Doyle doesn't quite stare at us with the starkness of Grant Wood's painting of an American couple--man holding pitch fork and woman wearing granny glasses and tight hairdo--but captures rather a younger spirit in this pas de deux of a couple, whether American or Gothic we can't tell. What the dancers retain is the constant look, that stare that the painting gives to the audience; this time the stare is primarily between the couple...
...those of bystanders, but of active participants in the struggle (e.g. Painters Helper campaign; support for Welfare Mothers struggling against the Flat Grant and price hikes in ghetto supermarkets when welfare checks come out; support for the Polaroid workers; fighting racist unemployment; support for Charlie McNeil, Kurt Bridgman and others in struggles against racist apprenticeship programs...
Yesterday's confrontation-the third in as many weeks-heard similar charges of racism from another black worker, Kurtis Bridgman. Bridgman, who had studied electronics for two years at Northeastern University and subsequently held jobs with KLH and the M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratories, told Butler that he had been promised electrician's work but had been relegated to "washing lightbulbs and cleaning fixtures...
Prior to the confrontation, Butler had said there was "a standing order to hire any qualified black electrician," but that none had been found. After hearing Bridgman's allegation, Butler denied that the employee had been "lied" to when hired, but said he was unfamiliar with the case...