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Minnie Johnson (Darlene Johnson), Jess's cousin, leads this world of Harlem night life, cursing, dancing, living on what she can get from her many male friends--"He who lives there must share," Jess says of her apartment. Minnie plays her part to the full, roaring around her apartment in her torn bathrobe, yelling at the neighbors, taking drinks from willing men. She is no match for Jess's wife. Joyce (Tonya Davis), a flat character given little life in this performance Joyce is an ambiguous figure in the Simple stories: a proud member of the Arts and Letters Club...
...impossible to live in Harlem and not know at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, a number of Boyds, and several cousin Minnies or reasonable facsimilies thereof." Langston Hughes writes in his introduction to another collection of Simple stories, Simple's Harlem is a glimpse of the people who produced Simple; from Hughes's tales of one man's life and friends. Cross and Kirkland have created an entire world of classic characters...
...citizens were under Communist rule. It was probably only a matter of Hanoi's choosing and timing before the coup de gráce would be delivered to Saigon. Even so stalwart a defender of the Saigon regime as Hoang Due Nha, 33, a cousin and confidant of President Nguyen Van Thieu's, admitted: "The Communists have put a noose around our neck." Nha insisted that the government can slip out of it, but he conceded that "it will be close, very close...
...Some members of the opposition went into hiding, fearful that Thieu would use the palace bombing as an excuse to imprison more opponents of the regime. The major problem that the opposition faces is the lack of a likely successor. Although his remark was self-serving, Thieu's cousin Nha was probably correct last week when he smugly observed: "Do you see anyone else around...
...publication is a cousin to the Moscow Chronicle of Current Events, a samizdat (publish it yourself) typewritten journal put out irregularly since April 1968 inside Russia and circulated hand to hand among Soviet dissidents. The New York Chronicle's 600 English-language and 300 Russian-language copies reach some of those dissidents as well as Soviet exiles in the West. There are also some impressive above-ground names on the subscription list: the CIA, the KGB, officials in Peking, Britain's Parliament and Western universities and libraries...