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...dispirited little company he inherited, then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko keeps no office of his own; instead he conducts daily gab sessions at the theater canteen where, over humdrum food and endless cups of coffee, he and his young dancers, drawn from 20 different countries, exchange ideas. The director encourages them to plan their own ways of interpreting his creations...
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Among recent Irish sorcerers with the gift of golden gab, Brendan Behan ranks high. In his rambunctiously brief 40-year life, he left the modern theater two plays, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, that have already shown a durable vitality. He also wrote an autobiography of his late teens called Borstal Boy. Though it lacks the density, scope and genius of Joyce's book, this is Behan's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. With a loving fidelity, Playwright Frank McMahon has pasted together a play that is more of a stage scrapbook, an episodic...
...Gab and Clout. Though his report got wide attention, Magaziner felt that Brown was slow in carrying it out. As a result, he staged mass rallies to push his reforms, organized three-student teams to work on every faculty member and turned his gift of gab on the administration. As president of the student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental...
...most public of authors, "Jackie " makes most of the network gab shows. Her picture appears on London buses and in New York subways. Raven-wigged and smoky-eyed, she gazes down from between the Preparation H and mail-order-diploma ads like an Egyptian love goddess who was unfortunate enough to have been caught with her head turned full front...