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...Louis Kronenberger (1938-61) and T.E. (Ted) Kalem (1961-85), who died of cancer this summer. Their successor is Associate Editor William A. Henry III, who this week inaugurates the new theater season with his reviews of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance and Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot. Henry also wrote a critique on the "Festival of India," a series of events in the U.S. celebrating that ancient civilization's arts and culture...
...collaborations with actors, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island (both 1972). But Fugard, 53, found a mature voice almost from the moment he began, as the Yale Repertory Theater demonstrated last week in what it billed as a "25th anniversary" revival of his first international success, The Blood Knot. The play, which Fugard started writing in 1960 and performed in 1961, is the story of two mixed-race brothers who live together in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of Fugard's hometown, Port Elizabeth. One is light-skinned enough to pass for white, and for years he tried...
Despite yesterday's turmoil, today's weather is expected to be sunny with temperatures in the high 70s, and 12- to 18-knot winds from the northwest. The UMass football game will be played as scheduled, "unless UMass can't get through to Cambridge," said Athletic Director John P. Reardon...
When he looks at the stars, frantically shuffling his charts, eyeglasses and flashlight, Mr. Palomar attracts a knot of wondering spectators. His behavior in a Paris cheese store, drawing sketches of various brands, makes other customers shake their heads. The dedicated observer has become a spectacle...
Standing around Africa Square Park in Miami's shabby, pastel-colored Liberty City, a knot of young blacks laments the Cuban invasion. "They're messing us up," says one. "They're taking bread out of our mouths." Another complains that the Cubans and Haitians are willing, even eager, to work for the legal minimum wage, or less. Many of the young blacks say they would rather not work than hire themselves out for what they consider insultingly low pay. Says Dorothy Fields, founder of Miami's Black Archive, a historical research agency: "It appears that we have a group...