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They could next drive south to Newport, R.I., a Victorian throwback, once the exclusive playground of the American aristocracy. The Vanderbilt mansions are overwhelmingly beautiful; the lobster is superb. A resident proudly informs them that here "the tomato was first introduced into America." Later Twain explains to the Englishmen what a tomato...
...principal sponsor, the vessel is the largest sailing yacht built since before World War I, and Colas is the only man ever to try to skipper such a leviathan without a crew across the treacherous Atlantic. He hopes to make the 3,000-mile passage from Plymouth, England, to Newport, R.I., in 18 days, beating his own record of 20½ days when he won the last race in 1972 in a 70-ft. ketch trimaran. To control the boat that Colas, 32, built at a cost of nearly $1.5 million, he has the help of an array...
Barbara Sullivan Newport...
...white-black-actors and march them into hell. In the world of the theatre as a whole, we the predominantly white audience begin to perceive the actors as a unified group manipulating us with savage skill. And then there is the reality beyond the theatre, whose messenger is Newport News. During the evening's performance, somewhere on "the outside," a black traitor has been executed and a new crusader chosen to take his place. The entire play has been nothing but an intricate diversion that distracts our attention while blacks organize our overthrow elsewhere...
...quality of his performance varies predictably depending on whom he is speaking to at the moment. Andrea Shockley (Virtue) is magnetic through the bulk of the evening but weakens the final scene with empty coquettery; her sultry beauty is insufficient explanation for Village's tortured affection. Marc Johnson (Newport News) seems to enunciate least just when his messages matter most. Lisa V. Harris as Bobo pouts and gestures in such a hollow mixture of accents and characters that her performance runs from uncomfortably empty to painfully mannered...