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Casey Cowen's bull is her audience, which she must goad and challenge to laughter. "There is something about a comedian standing in front of an audience and saying, in effect, 'I'm here to make you laugh," says Coe. "Casey has to fill the stage with her personality, ever active, ever activated, and always in control. With satellite figures, she is the play. And as she becomes more successful, more self-confident, a dichotomy arises between possession of the audience and her own personal life." Fluttering her soul in front of the audience as her cape, Casey must either...
...report grew out of "general paranoia and confusion among graduate students about finding jobs," Jean Goad, co-chairman of GWO's Task Force on Jobs, said yesterday...
...point is not that we think there's overt or conscious discrimination against women and minorities, but that they have the most to lose in a disorganized system," Goad added...
...Indians decided to move. With snow falling in the foothills of the Himalayas, making Chinese intervention even more unlikely, they sprang. Their aim was twofold: to draw West Pakistani troops to the border regions, making it easy for the guerrillas to gain control of the interior; and to goad Islamabad into declaring war so as to enable India to attack in the west as well as the east, and thus settle the issue of Kashmir once...
...Lagos, Nigeria, last March, the already depleted ranks of national civil rights leaders suffered a seemingly irreparable blow. Militant young blacks, scornful of older, more established organizations like Young's Urban League, have not produced a man with his skill as a persuasive negotiator and as a goad to whites who wield economic power. Last week the National Urban League announced the selection of a successor to Young who may well prove to be the bridge between black leaders of the past and black demands of the future. Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a black lawyer whose career has spanned...