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...resembles a jack-in-the-box out of the box, his long, gangling figure springing about beneath a jolly mop of brown hair. Best is his voice, which he uses like a virtuoso, rasping out some lines, snarling others like Burgess Meredith, or shooting up into a terribly British falsetto a la Rex Harrison. He conveys the tremendous nervous energy trapped inside him, which, unable to escape, manufactures a haggard lethargy; but here again the production seems unsettlingly close-to-life: Is it Simon Bruhl feverishly bored by the drying up of his creative juices, or John Wood feverishly bored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Throes | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...held the hand of the black woman to my left and the white man to my right--and raise them to the sky, and sing in unison "We Shall Overcome." And as we sang the verses, 7000 strong, swaying to the tune, a black singer poured his soft, improvised, falsetto blues accompaniment over us, soothing, reassuring, strengthening. We Shall Overcome, we sang, and we believed. How could we not believe? We were too strong, too good, too beautiful to be turned under again...

Author: By Chuck Fraser, | Title: A Gay Student's Experience at Harvard Coming Out | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

DIVORCED. Herbert Khaury, fiftyish, falsetto singer better known as Tiny Tim; and Miss Vicki, Victoria May Khaury, 25; after eight years of marriage, one child; in Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1977 | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Bruce LeNeal Adams as Valentine boasts a wonderfully resonant baritone, and he eases into a hint of falsetto and sly diction worthy of an Al Green. He tends to mumble over Shakespeare's lines, but there's a certain gullible, soft-hearted appeal in his stage presence. Cliff Richmond plays the treacherous Proteus with appropriately self-centered determination. At times he comes on to himself a little bit too strongly, wiping out the supporting cast through sheer force of neglect. But he displays admirable versatility, tripping with facility from the Spanish pronunciation and non-verbal cries of his Puerto Rican...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cuanto Me Gusta | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

CLARENCE ("CHUCK") WALDRON, 41, a onetime cabinetmaker who joined the Hughes organization as a driver about 20 years ago. Phelan describes him as something of an embarrassment to his five low-profile colleagues. "Sometimes he would burst into falsetto song, dance alone to music in public places or suddenly begin to imitate a horse neighing or a dog barking," writes Phelan. A onetime high school football player, Waldron has three children. A fourth drowned last summer in the Bahamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Keepers of the King | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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