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Frazier tells us that tumbleweed came from Russia, that Nicodemus, Kans. (pop. 50), was founded by black settlers in 1877, that during the dust-bowl years of the mid-'30s storms called "dusters" were identified by color -- brown from Kansas, red from Oklahoma, dirty yellow from Texas and New Mexico. He relates that in 1910 C.W. Post, the cereal magnate, tried to produce rain at Post City, Texas, by blowing up boxcarloads of dynamite. He had enough success, or at least enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux...
...male, four female) are played by Ludlam and his co-star Everett Quinton, with lightning-quick costume changes and split-personality voice throwing. Quinton as the maid skulks off stage right and 20 seconds later appears at the French doors as Lord Edgar. At the climax, Ludlam's Nicodemus struggles with Ludlam's Lady Enid-a true vaudeville tour de farce. Deft as a textbook travesty, delightful enough to take your mom (or your mummy) to, Irma Vep serves as a spiked tonic to the young theater season...
...Nicodemus, Kans.-a cluster of trailer homes and collapsing limestone houses, seemingly marooned in the vast rolling prairie-a six-member team of architects and students sits in the township hall, patiently listening to reminiscences by some of the village's 50 remaining residents. The team is trying to fill in a "municipal fingerprint" of Nicodemus during the decades after 1877, when it was founded by a colony of emancipated blacks...
...Nicodemus-named for a legendary black on the second slave ship from Africa, who later bought his freedom-HABS is less concerned with the buildings than with the homesteaders who built them. Increasingly devoid of people and a reason for being, Nicodemus, the only remaining black settlement in Kansas, is almost literally drying up and blowing away in the dusty prairie winds. Before it does, the HABS team is drawing a reconstructed plan of the town during its heyday and chronicling its social and cultural history. Says Team Member Ruth Pharr, 24, a British archaeologist studying at Kansas State: "This...
...ever wanted to change a frog into a prince, learn the principles of alchemy or snag a unicorn (and who has not?) The Sorcerer's Scrapbook (Random House; $6.95) is an ideal guidebook. Michael Berenstain's straightfaced account purports to be the Life and Times of Nicodemus Magnus, Doctor of Magic and Sorcerer to the Duke, told in his own words. But its true power and humor lie in its chiaroscuro Dark Ages illustrations of dungeons and dragons and a whimsical text that Merlin might have written on the wind...