Word: kitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Bell) and his concupiscent Wife of Wives (Eartha Kitt). Give Kitt credit for delivering sexily insinuative lines with the mocking irony of Mae West...
Lady Bird Johnson was close to tears, said bystanders, the day Eartha Kitt spoke out emotionally at a White House luncheon. American boys, she protested, were being "snatched off to be shot in Viet Nam." For a decade the entertainer was unofficially banned from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But last week she was back, along with several hundred other guests, including her daughter, Kitt McDonald, 16. The occasion: a reception in honor of the tenth anniversary of the restoration of Ford's Theater. "First I thought I shouldn't go," said Kitt, 50, who attended between performances...
...made The Wiz is now turning Kismet into Timbuktu!-and bringing it to Broadway. Borrowing eleven songs and the plot from the 1953 hit musical, Director-Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince and live happily...
...visiting astronomers, Harvard is part of the short Eastern swing of a month-long scientific exchange. Most of their time will be spent at research centers in the West such as Kitt Peak Observatory in Tucson, Arizona...
...year terms as Overseers are Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.); Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College; Lewis Thomas, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Leo Goldberg '34, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory...