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Tuesday's premiere performance showed the versatility of the troupe's technique in four markedly different pieces. The zany, humorous "Fontessa and Friends" opened the show with music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Scott Joplin, Khachaturian, James P. Johnson and Linda Clifford. This lively spoof on ballet and love affairs has a definite plot Fontessa (April Brown) paces around in an evening gown, languishing for The Man, a strong, macho hunk danced by Keith McDaniel. Meanwhile, Ragtime (Ralph Glenmore), a cool Black dude reminiscent of Ben Vereen, laughs at lovers, audience and himself. He turns to the back...
Stanford's anthropology chairman, Clifford Barnett, will not discuss the specific causes of dismissal, but says that the Taiwan article was "not the issue." A number of leading scholars familiar with the Stanford investigation agree that the article was not the cause of the expulsion. Says Charles Townes, chairman of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China: "The problem is not one of freedom of speech. It's one of unprofessional behavior...
Founded by Rice, who has enlisted the assistance of fellow professors to judge the entries (some 700 so far), the contest was named in dishonor of poor Edward G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton. A popular and workmanlike 19th century British novelist, Bulwer-Lytton wrote a book, Paul Clifford, that unfortunately began, "It was a dark and stormy night. . ." Among the exquisitely bad sentences sent to the California (zip code: 95192) judges: "Screaming like a banshee, bargaining like a waterfront drug dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code...
...Clifford Glover, 10, was shot and killed by officer Thomas J. Shea. While looking for two grown men who had robbed a taxi. Shea and his partner came across Glover walking with his stepfather in a section of Queens. Thinking the pair were his suspects, Shea leaped from an unmarked car. He was wearing street clothes and did not identify himself. Shea fired when the 10-year-old raised what turned out to be a plastic toy gun. The officer was acquitted in court, but an internal police tribunal expelled him from the force...
...blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul's casting couch, coddle no gossip columnist. She deserted Hollywood after her first hit movie (Come and Get It, 1936) to join the Group Theater in New York City as the star of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Life struck back at Frances with gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group dumped her. She was cast in forgettable B pictures. Her caustic temper cost her: Farmer's rap sheet was soon as long as her filmography. After one pathetic performance before a California judge...