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...SIEGE OF HARLEM, by Warren Miller. Taking his cue from black nationalist tirades, Satirist Miller turns Harlem into an independent nation. If the subject doesn't seem funny in a summer of rioting, it is the best proof yet of Miller's skill as a writer and his knowledge of Harlem, where he lived for five years...
...first problem was getting the "echoes" to come in on time. If each conductor waited to hear his cue, there would be too much of a time lag and resulting chaos. To make it come out right, the conductors had to learn to get their orchestras going just the right number of beats before they heard their cue. And when that was perfected, there came the problem of achieving the fading effect. Mozart, with probably a small garden in mind, had scored each "orchestra" as a string quartet with two horns. This did not work in Tangle-wood...
Last week the toothpaste business was again agitated over fluorides. The A.D.A. gave Colgate's new fluoridated Cue toothpaste the same pat on the back it had awarded Crest...
...said that his King Claudius is one of his better portrayals. He does not seem at all royal. Murderer he may be, but Claudius is also an undeniably efficient administrator. In the Play Scene, he gives no signs of paying attention to what is going on until his cue to break the party up. This scene is, however, visually appealing. Five attendants stand about with ten-foot poles topped by simulated deer's heads, orange streamers, and flaming torches; the resulting Hallowe'enish atmosphere is appropriately scary...
...Paris that longtime Ambassador to the U.S. Herve Alphand would be replaced in the coming months. Alphand and his elegant wife Nicole had been close to the Kennedys, but showed little interest in L.B.J. before his accession to power ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," sniffed Nicole when Johnson became President...