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Anne Cavin Walters Hampton...
...last, the repertory theater network has its white hope: Preston Jones, 40, author within three years of three new plays as indigenous as hominy grits. Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia and The Oldest Living Graduate-known collectively as A Texas Trilogy-were brought to public attention on a typically Texan scale. Two New Year's Eves ago, Dallas Theater Center patrons experienced a triple-play production of all-night Jones that began at 7 p.m. and lasted through 2 a.m. Since then, Jones' trilogy setting, the mythical West...
Every summer the New York art scene shuts tight, like an irritated clam. The artists vanish to East Hampton, Brooklyn or Bogotá; many of the commercial galleries, both uptown along the axes of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, and downtown in SoHo, do not reopen until September. All the same, there is as much going on in Manhattan this summer as in many other U.S. cities at the height of their art season...
...methods were essentially similar to those used in other such programs. The FBI took a harsher line on black groups, particularly the Black Panthers. An important new discovery is that the FBI through an informer supplied the Chicago police with a floor plan of Panther leader Fred Hampton's apartment before the apartment was raided and Hampton killed. This development lends support to the contention that Hampton, who was killed in bed, neither shot back nor fell victim to an accident, but rather was murdered by police acting on the encouragement...
...account piqued the interest of David Maysles and his brother Albert, two young film-makers who had produced Gimme Shelter and Salesman. They went to East Hampton in the fall of 1973 and spent five weeks filming Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale, age 79, and her daughter Edie, 56, then edited the footage into Grey Gardens, a disturbing portrayal of their gothic relationship...