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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says Diller. But the club's brass, which may reprimand Rose, found the stunt a drag in every way. Club Director Jean-Pierre Trebot vows to "increase security." How? Well, he concedes, "we're not about to frisk everybody...
...Jean E. Fairfax of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education fund, added that "Black women must combat racism as well as sexism." She described her life as "one of fighting" and spoke of her grandmother's march with the first suffragettes and of her mother, one of the first Black graduates of the University of Kansas...
...through flamboyant reinterpretation. The stage director, once a traffic cop, has become in effect a second librettist. These show doctors have made some startling alterations: Jonathan Miller updated Rigoletto as a '50s Mafia love story; Patrice Chereau set the Ring during the turbulence of the industrial revolution; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle WIDE WORLD played The Flying Dutchman as the phantasmagorical dream of one of its minor characters. Most radical of all is Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen, first seen in Paris in 1981 and due to open in New York City this month. Brook...
...agency to defer major antipress proposals. Diplomats predicted that the second Talloires session would reinforce the journalists' counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to the agency: "This makes UNESCO a little less anxious to take a confrontational tone." Still, Gerard believes that the agency has not sufficiently recognized the value of unregulated coverage: the U.S. will propose next month that UNESCO agree that a free press stimulates economic growth...
...Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh) is an American Jew who has come to Israel to practice law. Her first major client, a young Palestinian (Muhamad Bakri) caught sneaking into Israel, is attempting to secure legal right to the house he lived in as a boy. Prodded by her estranged husband (Jean Yanne) and provoked by the state prosecutor (Gabriel Byrne), by whom she has become pregnant, Hanna stands her ground, and nearly digs her own grave. By the end she is a spiritual sibling to Kafka's Joseph K.-a displaced person in a land where everyone tries...