Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company only six years ago, Manchester-born Joe Hyman steadily enlarged it through acquisitions, eventually merged with illustrious 180-year-old William Hollins & Co. Ltd., and himself emerged as Rollins' chairman and chief executive. Last week Hollins - renamed Viyella International Ltd. to capitalize on the fame of its lamb's-wool-and-cotton Viyella fabric - moved to take over British Van Heusen for $30 million. When negotiations are complete, Joe Hyman will head Britain's largest purely textile operation, with sales of $70 mil lion annually...
...rest of the program tried, rather ineptly, to talk about slavery ("Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"), modes of Christian religion ("Blood of the Lamb"), and the occasional horror of growing up in the streets ("Games."). All these themes could be powerfully interpreted in dance, but McKayle's choreography was weak. He seemed to rely on, rather than dominate, the attendant mime and singing. Instead of the dance patterns the viewer remembers the "Two little babies lyin' in bed; one plain sick, the other plain dead. Called the doctor, the doctor said: give them babies some shortnen' bread...
...Blood of the Lamb" suffered in the same way. The piece is a rather heavy parody in which the Elder (Gus Solomons) tries to overcome his lust for a Sister (Miss de Lavallade) who has also aroused a prospective brother (McKayle). As the fetishistic Elder rips layers off the Sister's dress, McKayle staggers before Christ's altar, crying, "He's all aroun'; but Ah cain't see Him." Meanwhile the Deacons implore him to "Take mah han'," jogging their bodies like jerky rock 'n' rollers. In one of his epileptic fits (de rigeur for any prospective member...
...hours passed, Spiridonov urged Lamb to lower the tail gates, to have his men stand up in the trucks, to do anything that would even hint of a backdown. Lieut. Lamb refused. Finally, 41 hours after it began, the blockade was lifted. "We will clear you on your terms," said a Russian officer...
Around the Curve. Following his contingency instructions, Lieut. Lamb waited until nearly midnight, then started the convoy rolling again. A quarter of a mile down the road, around a curve, a line of Soviet armored vehicles and sedans blocked...