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...situation. The curate Diouf pleads for passive religious acceptance; Felicity Trollop Pardon shrieks "Dahomey!" and "Africa!" with an epileptic frenzy; Augusta Snow says little and wears anger like a nimbus round her pout-mouthed head. Genet further burlesque's white perceptions of black names by dubbing the mysterious revolutionary "Newport News." Adelaide Bobo assists emcee-director Archibald and they begin to organize the evening's performance...
...there is in fact no white corpse in the flower-bedecked coffin. The actors deliberately offend the court, speaking of urine and filth and foul carrion odors. The Governor soon sputters "we've come to attend our own funeral rites." Throughout all this, something ominously unknown is transpiring offstage: Newport News enters and exists, relaying puzzling messages to the court and cast...
Baez did not seem at ease. She was very sensitive to the crowd, sometimes even responding to the things people shouted out. "Do you remember Newport?" "Yeah, I remember Newport. All that madonna stuff. What a bore." The audience was content to listen to her but she was jumpy, assuring everyone not to worry, her would be back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down...
...last month Robert Rubin, a transplanted New Yorker living in Newport, Ore., signed over the four houses and ten-acre farm he owned to a friend and then went away. His neighbor Sue Greenberg put her name to a notarized document assigning her two children to a friend's care, and then she went away too. In Eugene, Surveyor Gerald Anderson quit his job and disappeared, as did Dan Staggs, a nurseryman from nearby Springfield. In all, somewhere between 21 and 26 Oregonians simply up and left everything they had after attending a recruiting meeting of a baffling...
...with his hat, but it had been suggested that this might look old-fashioned in the U.S. The Americans did not have much use for hats. So the old gentle man had conscientiously practiced waving with his hand alone. When his plane came to a halt last week in Newport News, Va., he appeared bareheaded...