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Chicago's partner, Abstract Painter Miriam Schapiro, explained that they were trying to dramatize women in real life, "not as the object of male art." Accordingly, the makers of the dream house dressed the front half of a manikin bride in white satin and posed her triumphantly at the head of the staircase. Their tableau extended to the bottom of the stairs, where the rear half of the bride disappeared into the gray woodwork, carrying her dashed dreams with her into oblivion...
...higher levels, at least, black protest sometimes bears a surprising resemblance to black capitalism. Last week, for instance, the Internal Revenue Service disclosed a claim against Expatriate Stokely Carmichael, former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and his wife, Singer Miriam Makeba, for $48,193 in income taxes for 1968 and 1969. Reporter Tim Findley of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote up a visit he recently paid to the $700-a-month penthouse pad of Black Panther Supreme Commander Huey P. Newton. " 'I stay here because it's a security building,' Newton said, looking...
...MIRIAM M. CASDIN...
...most part, those who auditioned were Disney-type kids: all-American kids." The average age of the girls is 19, the boys 21, and they run the gamut of honor-rollers, cheer leaders, glee-clubbers and yearbook editors. The cast has such a home-town flavor that Choreographer Miriam Nelson and others had to conduct travel clinics to help the kids adjust to life on the road. "Get eight hours of sleep a night," they were told. "Phone home at least once a week to prevent homesickness...
This past summer, Miss Williams appeared at the Antibes Jazz Festival in France and at the International Festival of Negro Arts in Algiers, where she starred with Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone...