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...Arts. Lichtenstein's goal was to revive the Academy as a center for all the arts. In 1968 he persuaded Manhattan's Chelsea Theater Center to be the resident repertory company in the Academy's small (250 seats) fourth-floor theater (the facilities also include a 2,200-seat opera house, a 1,200-seat music hall and a 125-ft.-long grand ballroom). A year later, the Chelsea company's production of LeRoi Jones' Slaveship was so successful that it moved to off-Broadway after its three-week Brooklyn run. The same thing happened...
...where he has been able to offer more venturesome seasons than anything available on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge. This year, for example, he has already put on Robert Wilson's twelve-hour epic The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31) and the Chelsea Theater Center's sparkling revival of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. This week Lichtenstein unveils his greatest coup yet: a three-month season by three top British repertory companies. Playgoers will be able to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Young Vic and the Actors Company hi productions ranging...
...delegation from the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Association appeared, ominously clad in dark glasses and combat uniforms, Whitelaw casually offered them afternoon tea. He scandalized Protestants by flying members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to a secret meeting at a borrowed house in London's fashionable Chelsea district. Observes the Alliance Party's Bob Cooper: "Whitelaw had the ability to search through an argument with a microscope, find a tiny germ of agreement and enlarge...
There's also a beer party for the Chelsea Disaster Relief Fund at Harvard's only fraternity (85 Putnam Street) Saturday at 8:00. There's no film, but we couldn't think of any better place to put the listing...
TAXES--Cambridge's real property tax is the third highest in the Boston area, topped only by Boston and Chelsea. Predictably, none of the candidates advocate increased taxes, although their programs for stabilizing the present tax vary. Some favor redistribution of the tax burden within the city (for instance, the Socialist Workers Party would tax businesses while removing taxes on incomes under $15,000 or property valued at less than $30,000) or between the state and city...