Word: leroi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find much better books about jazz. For literary merit, read LeRoi Jones's uneven but occasionally brilliant Black Music. For biography and oral history, read Spellman's Four Lives. For comprehensive approach and an up-to-date discography Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History is among one of the best. But if you know nothing about jazz and want to learn, spend your money on records instead...
...industry moguls "blockheads," she stormed East to New York in 1962. "I guess I just didn't want to be Natalie Wood," she told the press on arrival. She studied with Lee Strasberg, won a Venice Film Festival award for her role as a subway seductress in LeRoi Jones' Dutchman, and earned a reputation as a terror on Broadway. Once, to protest what she felt was a director's incompetence, she singlehanded trashed the set of a play. "I'm a practical person, but a bit of me is arrogant, even hostile," says Shirley...
...resident repertory company in the Academy's small (250 seats) fourth-floor theater (the facilities also include a 2,200-seat opera house, a 1,200-seat music hall and a 125-ft.-long grand ballroom). A year later, the Chelsea company's production of LeRoi Jones' Slaveship was so successful that it moved to off-Broadway after its three-week Brooklyn run. The same thing happened to a 1971-72 production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and a 1973 Academy staging of Jean Genet's The Screens. Lichtenstein has also...
...forum sponsored by the NCLC to charge that Imamu Amin Baraka (Leroi Jones) is an agent of the CIA, a fight broke out at 9:40 p.m. Seven people were stabbed, none seriously...
...between NCLC members and people identified by the Cambridge Police as members of De Mau Mau, a black Vietnam veterans group. The NCLC has called the forum to present what it claimed was evidence that Imamu Amiri Baraka, the black poet and political leader who is also known as Leroi Jones, was an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency...