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...Brain. Though this work did not enjoy a particularly long NY run, it has had a healthy regional life, and I would love to see it come to a Harvard stage. Its off-Broadway cast is featured on one of my favorite recordings, with Malcolm Gets, best known as Richard on Caroline in the City, but also an accomplished musical theater performer and Yale Drama grad, beautifully assaying the lead role...
...most seriously afflicted breeds. As a result, endurance is no longer among the dog's most salient features. Bulldogs today too often have huge heads, short bowed legs and very squashed muzzles. Their pelvises are often so narrow that caesarean operations are necessary to deliver puppies. Says geneticist Malcolm Willis, senior lecturer in animal breeding at Newcastle University, "On a hot summer day you can lose a bulldog." Leila, who died before her fifth birthday, is a case in point. Her London owner, Ken Mollett, was not surprised. Even undemanding walks had been too much for Leila...
...Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame. And in V., the New York City department of sanitation has a division arming men to kill the alligators in the sewers...
...clerked for both Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Harry A. Blackman of the United States Supreme Court and later served as a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice...
...very inspired by [the protests]. It was good to see that there were students who were active,” says Fletcher, who explains that he had been a “radical” ever since reading Malcolm X’s autobiography...