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...French concentrator, lamenting the lack of courses in modern French Lit.? Take heart: Cocteau on Cocteau offers you a visit with the poet via a one-man show which opens tonight. The man in question is Neil Armstrong, who reads from the letters and works of the warm, witty and generally delightful artist. At the French Library (where else?); call...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Core for the Connoisseur | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...very different sort of one-man show has just opened this past Monday. Victor Borge, the "piano prince of comedy", sings, jokes, and plays --you guessed it-- his piano. Go; join the legion of Borge fans as you sink in laughter over the man's routines. At the Colonial; call...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Core for the Connoisseur | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...cane and even mouthed a harmonica. After the finale and a flurry of roses at his feet, the star collapsed in his dressing room and sighed: "I could act Hamlet easier than this any day of the week. This is the pits." Nevertheless, if his one-man show continues to pack them in, Papp could learn to like it. Next pit stop? Jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1978 | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Derry accommodation began slowly with the termination in 1969 of the Protestant-controlled municipal corporation that administered the city. Four years later, after direct British rule had begun, Westminster set up elections for a new city council, whose 27 members are chosen on a one-man, one-vote basis. At first none of the three major factions?the Protestant Unionists, the Catholic Socialist Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) and the nonsectarian Alliance Party?won a clear-cut majority, and by common agreement the office of mayor alternated every year between Catholics and Protestants. Then last year, for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Power in Derry | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...half-hour review of business and finance that has defied all laws of gravity that usually apply to the tube and become one of public TV's top shows, drawing 5 million viewers every Friday evening. WSW has done more than make its natty 6-ft. 2-in. star the most popular figure on PBS since Sesame Street's Big Bird. It has also enabled him to parlay his blend of authority and irreverence into a one-man miniconglom-erate that has both a name (Rukeyser Enterprises, Inc.) and an income that may exceed $300,000 this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Rise of Rukeyser, Inc. | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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