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...Sunday, May 10, Agca returned to Rome, checking in at the Pensione Isa, a colorless boardinghouse that is about a 15-min. walk from St. Peter's Square. It was there that police searched Room 31 and found Agca's Perugian student card, his false passport, an extra cartridge clip for the Browning and the letter in Turkish boasting of the Pope's death. In the familiar tones of 1979, it denounced "Russian and American imperialism" and made John Paul the scapegoat for both...
...apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll put his personal popularity rating eight points ahead of his opponent, silver-haired Richard von Weizsäcker, 61, the competent but colorless C.D.U. candidate who had come out squarely against the squatters...
...introduction to Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton '76, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recalls the iron-gray Auntie Em of The Wizard of Oz, the sexless and colorless lady of the Kansas plains who has come to represent the withered frontier woman in the minds of childhood readers. The transformation of Dorothy's maternal surrogate, one of the more familiar passages of the beloved novel, goes like this...
...charming lead might have compensated for much, but Peter Ginna is a lobotomized clown, a colorless mime, a plodding acrobat, barely competent without, dead within--a black hole. He is matched by John Cole, whose readings conjure up the printed page, and by Melissa Franklin in a grating, one-note performance. But there is very good work by Madora Thomson, whose fluent, hammy gestures and Bryn Mawr accent are both funny and seductive; by Christopher Randolph, an endearing, intelligent, convincingly lived-in old Pantalone, fresh vet familiar; and by the director, whose seemingly effortless, unctuous gigolo is a model...
...comic actor Willie Best, LeRoi Jones listed the unlaughable characteristics: "Lazy/ Frightened/ Thieving/ Very potent sexually/ Scars/ Generally inferior/ But natural rhythms." White America has also created itself-a world that, when depicted in a novel like William Melvin Kelley's dem (1967), comes off as pallid, literally colorless, and trapped. In Drylongso, an oral history collected by John Langston Gwaltney and published last July, Jackson Jordan Jr., a nearly 90-year-old black North Carolinian, puts it to white people rather kindly: "Pretending to know everything or just pretending to be better than you know you are must...