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...poster, but also the story behind the statements. Perhaps they are scared to openly admit their support for an organization that takes greatest pride in the murder of disabled American Leon Klinghoffer, the 1972 massacre of Olympic Athletes in Munich, and the 1974 massacre of sleeping Israeli children in Ma'alot...
...writing, first poetry, then folktale adaptations for performance at a science museum, then plays. By the time Wilson, 42, brought his poignant Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle prize. Fences won the theater's triple crown -- the 1987 Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Critics Circle award -- and is still playing, having set a record for nonmusicals by grossing $11 million its first year...
...dramas, reflecting black life in each decade of this century. In 1982, through the playwright-development program at Connecticut's O'Neill Theater Center, he met Lloyd Richards, dean of Yale's drama school, who offered the plays a home -- staging them at Yale and later on Broadway. Ma Rainey, the first of their collaborations, depicts a 1920s blues singer who deals with segregation by staying fiercely within a black subculture. Fences, set in the 1950s on the eve of the civil rights era, centers on an embittered former baseball player, too old for the majors when the color...
...Geula Cohen asserted. "I'm for the freedom of Israel." But few expect the South African solution -- stopping the disorders by starving them of media attention -- to work in Israel. The often contentious Israeli press is unlikely to tolerate continued censorship. Ido Dissentchik, editor of the conservative daily newspaper Ma'ariv, called the shutdown of the territories a "hysterical step" by desperate officials trying to hide their own actions. Whatever the consequences for the Jewish state's fragile image, said Dissentchik, "Israeli authorities must live with this problem called democracy...
...Since rents have been escalating, some places going for $60 per square foot... only high-profit-margin, national chain stores or those that appeal to faddish markets survive, since they are able to pay top dollar," Gifford said." The Ma and Pa stores are being forced out, and that's a shame...