Word: joplin
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DECISION REVERSED. For Christine Craft, 39, a former Kansas City TV anchorwoman who charged that in 1981 station KMBC, then owned by Metromedia, demoted her because of unhappiness with her appearance; by a federal jury that awarded her $325,000 in damages; in Joplin, Mo. Another federal jury voted Craft $500,000 in damages, but a judge threw that award out. Metromedia plans to appeal...
...ages of 16 and 30-showed up at Woodstock. Thousands more would have come if police had not blocked off access roads, which had become ribbonlike parking lots choked with stalled cars. The lure of the festival was an all-star cast of top rock artists, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane. But the good vibrations of good groups turned out to be the least of it. What the youth of America-and their observing elders-saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values...
Tuesday's premiere performance showed the versatility of the troupe's technique in four markedly different pieces. The zany, humorous "Fontessa and Friends" opened the show with music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Scott Joplin, Khachaturian, James P. Johnson and Linda Clifford. This lively spoof on ballet and love affairs has a definite plot Fontessa (April Brown) paces around in an evening gown, languishing for The Man, a strong, macho hunk danced by Keith McDaniel. Meanwhile, Ragtime (Ralph Glenmore), a cool Black dude reminiscent of Ben Vereen, laughs at lovers, audience and himself. He turns to the back...
DIED. James Hubert ("Eubie") Blake, 100, durable ragtime composer and lyricist (Charleston Rag and I'm Just Wild About Harry); just five days after his centennial, following a bout of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. A onetime bordello pianist and a contemporary of Scott Joplin, Blake electrified Broadway in 1921 with his music for Shuffle Along. For the next 25 years the modest, unassuming composer enjoyed steady success before sliding into semiobscurity. His music was rediscovered in the '60s and eventually celebrated in such Broadway shows as 1979's Eubie...
...William J. Fleischaker Prosecuting Attorney, Jasper County Joplin...