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...spent Saturdays sketching Indians and communed only with her celluloid idol James Dean. But Mrs. Anderson's girl turned out different from most of the teen-agers living for the rock-'n'-roll scene. She learned to play the guitar and discovered that she had a fluent talent for words. Today, as Joni Mitchell, she is a creative force of unrivaled stature in the mercurial world of rock. Help Me, a single released this year, has already sold 800,000 copies. Sales of her first six albums total 4.6 million copies. The newest, Miles of Aisles, released...
...diplomat. In fact, a few years ago he was one of the highest-ranking men in the Chilean Armed Forces, a general in the Air Force. His retirement in 1972 proved abortive when the military junta that ousted President Salvador Allende in September 1973 drafted him--and his fluent English--to serve the new government as its envoy to the United States. His articulateness in defending the military government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and attacking its enemies were apparent in an interview with The Crimson before his speech last week to members of the Boston-based World Affairs Council...
Director John D. Shearin has applied a light but firm touch to his enterprise and his talented company, avoiding overdoing a script easily overdone and providing a fluent, entertaining piece of theater. The fast and funny domestic dialogue, like the banter in any household, conveys surprisingly complex meaning and tension through its trivial irrelevance and presents a challenge of interpretation which the production meets. Dealing with an obvious though not unambiguous "message play," the Loeb group meets the problem of getting the message across without hammering it in. Odets-a short-term Communist Party member who quit because...
...been allowed to bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted in fluent French with a Franciscan friar...
...Syrian escort officer, a young lieutenant who spoke fluent English, explained that before the 1967 war, 150,000 Syrians had lived in the Golan. Today almost none do. (The Israelis insist that no more than 70,000 Syrians ever inhabited the area.) "It is our land," said the lieutenant. "It has never been their land. They lie when they say they need...