Word: jeroboam
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...Manhattan last week more than a thousand guests thronged to opening night at Le Drugstore, gaping at its chic decorations, examining the wares in its boutiques and sampling the wines and food in its three restaurants. They gulped champagne by the Jeroboam at the most popular attraction: a mahogany and ostrich-leather bar. 'That bar is soft and sensuous," explained soft and sensuous Caroline Solovei. 27, the wealthy beauty who is Le Drugstore's president. "It's just like everything else here. It sums up our total look...
...savagery last month. In Detroit, where there are long, rancorous memories of racial friction, a young, vigorous mayor who was renominated last week is work ing imaginatively to make a happier and more beautiful city for all its people. New Orleans, the Crescent City that habitually bubbles like a Jeroboam of Mumm, struggled agonizingly back from the flat despair sowed by Hurricane Betsy. And in New York, after years of soul-deadening drift, the voters leaned forward for what looked like the first no-holds-barred, two-party mayoral contest in years...
Under the direction of Nike Awoga and Femi Okuronmu, the cast seemed to enjoy themselves as completely as the audience did and they played their comic parts to the hilt, storming and shouting around the stage with enormous enthusiasm and exuberance. Amafume Onoge as the prophet Jeroboam delighted the house with abrupt switches from pompous ranting at his flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line...
...minimum of props (a couple of wine bottles, and an old bicycle), a maximum of high spirits and a great deal of skill, the Pan-African Student Organization took the stage of the Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival Saturday night to present the comedy "The Trials of Brother Jeroboam" by Wole Soyinka. With the exception of one bit-part, the entire cast was composed of African students now living in the Boston area...
...with what God is, but cared only for what he does and says. Unlike the mystics, the prophets did not express the ineffable glory of God, but spoke of specific situations-the machinations of Jewish foreign policy, or the selling of debtors into slavery during the reign of King Jeroboam II (circa 786-746 B.C.). Isaiah, for example, declares that the Almighty will condemn a military alliance between Israel and Egypt...