Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Director Geoffrey Holder was called in to rescue The Wiz during its disastrous pre-Broadway tour, he found that his biggest problem was the company's low morale. For Holder, a 6-ft. 6-in. Samson of a man from Trinidad, the solution was easy. He assembled the cast and crew onstage and asked them to pray while he exorcised the evil dispirit by burning incense given him by his father...
...Corcoran Gallery, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and the homes of, among others, William Buckley and Barbara Walters. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway (the 1957 revival of Waiting for Godot) and in films (Live and Let Die, Doctor Dolittle). He is the author of Geoffrey Holder's Caribbean Cookbook and the co-author and illustrator of Black Gods, Green Islands, a collection of short stories. He is also an "uncola" man and a "ring-around-the-collar" man of television commercials...
...front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a paintbrush, both of which were first taken up by Holder's older brother Boscoe. "From the beginning, I was high on Chopin and turpentine," says Geoffrey. He has studied none of his arts formally. Creativity, he explains, is mostly a matter of environment and exigency: "At Carnival, for example, every Trinidadian is a costume designer. I just grew up believing everybody could do everything...
...furor would make an episode in it self. Undoubtedly, Southwold Solicitor Sir Geoffrey would summon a conclave to cope with the scandal. Richard might well consider putting the screws on the outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come...
...article, The Great World Crisis, Geoffrey Barraclough wrote similarly of the food situation: "The first necessity, in discussing the food question, is to get rid of the misconceptions in which it is currently bogged down. Two myths, in particular, have befogged the whole issue. The first is the persistent legend that food shortages are the consequence of inexorable population pressures. The second is that there is an over-all shortage of food stuffs. Neither will bear serious scrutiny...