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...sizable segment of that after-hours world consists of drinking, whoring, gambling and fighting. Bullins would probably get frothing mad at any white (playwright or not) who said some of the things that he says about blacks. He disowns the Lincoln Center production of The Duplex as a "coon show," though nothing in the script indicates that the spirit of the play has been violated. As a slice-of-life playwright, Bullins carves out zesty evocations of drunken parties, card-playing cronies, the sudden sensual thrust and parry of the sexes. When he can carve out the palpitating hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Triple Trouble | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

MARY ANN CONNERY Coon Rapids, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1972 | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...Thanks to the precise timing of the City Ballet soloists, the intricate sight gags work to perfection. In an otherwise delicate sextet, one or another of six girls is either out of place, out of step or out of line. A lyrically complicated double duet turns into a Lao-coon-11ke tangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Satire and Slapstick | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

THIS was all nothing new. Coon-hunting is a traditional Southern pastime. Perhaps this is the reason that the Jackson killings have been so remarkably forgettable. We have sat through the movie too many times for its tragedy to be compelling. Perhaps because the killings happened so late in the year.... At any rate, only three colleges closed in sympathy to the killings at Jackson as opposed to the 479 that closed in mourning of Kent...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Jackson State Old Times There Are Forgotten | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

...been unable to fend for himself. They surmised that his fellows kept him alive until he met his death in an accidental rockfall inside the cave, a common peril for these communal hunters who lived from 100,000 to 40,000 years ago. Comments Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon: "On the grounds of behavior alone, the Shanidar folk merit the title of Homo sapiens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Upgrading Neanderthal Man | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

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