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Kean fills the stage without overrunning it. A little too soft in "Anyone Can Whistle"--from a Sondheim show that closed after only one week--she treats this thoughtful, almost philosophical song with the same muted projection and shyness that are more appropriate to the lighter "Broadway Baby," a prayer for theatrical hopefuls, waiting for that one big chance...
Oddly enough, the lighter-skinned black male did not seem to feel so much prejudice toward the black black woman. It was no accident, I felt, that Mr. Harrison, the eighth-grade teacher, who was reddish-yellow himself, once protested to the science and math teacher about the fact that he always assigned sweeping duties to Doris and Ruby, two black black girls. Mr. Harrison said to them one day in the other teacher's presence, "You must be some bad girls. Every day I come down here you all are sweeping." The science and math teacher...
...corateurs, and the longest at it, is Robert Zakanitch, 45 represented at the Whitney with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating on a gray-green field of water and creamy lilies. But younger painters tend to settle for something lighter, stylish in a glitzy way and openly bird-brained. Beside Robert Kushner's Same Outfit, 1979, Dufy might look like Poussin...
...Albisser, director of biomedical research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, told scientists last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that a lighter and fully automated pump could normalize blood sugar levels at all times of the day by continuously injecting small doses of insulin into a large vein...
Despite the Soviets' nervousness, most government-sponsored networks are now going lighter on propaganda. V.O.A. has tripled its African audience in the past decade, when it began improving news coverage of the continent and scheduling more entertainment. Many young Africans love American popular music, and the Voice's "African Sound" is so popular that a V.O.A. correspondent once got sprung from a jail in Benin by mentioning to the police chief that he was a personal friend of Host Georges Collinet. The network's Special English Broadcasts, often called the slow news because the announcer reads...