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...Fantasticks, Tom Jones' and Harvey Schmidt's 1959 musical about a boy and girl who believe they are defying their parents' wishes by falling in love with each other, never lived up to its name, and these days it has crow's feet. Generally uninspiring music--although the touching ballad "Try to Remember" came from this show--and a sappy script spoil this simple parable before it can get off the ground. But with over 7,000 Off-Broadway performances and still counting, who's gonna argue with success? Overall a decent production, although narrator-abductor E1 Gallo hasn...
...artwork Chagall is also dictating the second volume of his memoirs (the first volume was written in 1921-22). Speaking of his discovery of the Coóte d'Azur after he left Russia in 1922, he recalled: "I came here to search for flowers and birds, the crow and the fox, town rats and country rats...
...publication of material in the Lampoon, which was meant to satirize or parody ethnic material, goes beyond simple fun in ways that stereotype and ridicule ethnic groups. This occurs because the experiences or images stereotyped carry such powerful connotations; one (for example) from the Jim Crow South, The Tar Baby Award, and the other from Nazi Germany, the Camp Buchenwald advertisement...
...physical gifts, with great dedication to the honing of their arts and remarkable mental and emotional resiliency under pressure. They have much in common, most obviously that they are black. As superstars nonpareil, they are both inheritors and exemplars-the legatees of black athletes whose greatness moldered in Jim Crow obscurity, and the new idols of American sports culture...
...already executives and investors are sizing up which industries and companies will be most helped or hurt. The potential losers-some oil producers, automakers and utilities among them-are openly annoyed. The prospective winners, a diverse group including some industries that have drawn little investment attention, are loath to crow about benefiting from a plan that the President presented in terms of stern sacrifice; privately, they are delighted...