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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Informant" was hired to infiltrate specific black militant organizations. The "Racial Informant--Ghetto" is a resident of a black or brown ghetto who comes into contact with a large number of the residents every day: e.g., a bartender, barber, newsstand owner, etc. This informer is paid to keep an ear open for rumblings of impending riots or demonstrations, without actively attempting to penetrate a group...
...with the City Center Jeffrey Ballet looks and sounds more like a late night at a discotheque. Still a popular item in the company's often scintillating but insubstantial repertory is Director Robert Jeffrey's Astarte, a mixed-media tour de force duet that throbs to an ear-pounding score by a group called the Crome Syrcus. Another audience favorite is Choreographer Gerald Arpino's exuberant, medieval-rock celebration. Trinity. Last week, as part of its fall season at Manhattan's City Center, the troupe gave the première of yet another rock ballet, Margo...
...play is very undramatic. Williams relies heavily on his uncanny ear for colloquial speech, and his ability to not let slip a false line. The script, however, has several defects. It does not develop the potentialities it introduces and misses the brutal impact it could have had if the plot and characters were more fully developed. Moreover, the long soliloquies which are made to carry most of the burden reveal little about the characters and at least one, Violet's, is totally superfluous. The play is hard to digest, but it does leave one with enough of its strange, bittersweet...
...Haunted Mansion, a Charles Addamsish house inhabited by an ear-shattering band of ghosts, ghouls, poltergeists and even a singing tombstone...
Americans may, as they tell the polltakers, consider television their prime source of news. According to yet another survey, however, TV newscasts usually go in one rabbit ear and out the other. Telephoning TV viewers after a newscast, Andrew Stern, a former ABC News staffer now on the journalism faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, found that 51% of those who had listened could not recall even one of the show's 19 items. Among all those called, the average memory rate was one item. (The calls were made over a period ranging from immediately after...