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...their appeal. He has had 20 hit singles and eleven bestselling albums, and now he is a multimillionaire. A month ago at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles, the record industry's equivalent of the annual Oscar presentations, he came close to turning the affair into a one-man show by copping four major awards. The prizes included best pop vocal performance by a male for his interpretation of his own song, You Are the Sunshine of My Life, and album of the year for Wonder's most recent LP, Innervisions...
Henry Fonda's Darrow, which last week began a limited run on Broadway before going to Boston, Detroit, Denver and Los Angeles, has something of both the fascination and the mustiness of the history in it. It is a one-man show, a long reminiscence over Darrow's career. Fonda ranges across Darrow's life-his scant formal learning (one year of law school), his increasing involvement in dangerously unpopular cases, like that of the Wobbly Big Bill Haywood, and, of course, the Scopes trial...
...little guy himself (5 ft. 7 in.), White has turned himself into a one-man anti-oil lobby to press such views on Congress and administrative agencies. He now spends less time at his private law practice than as head of the Consumer Federation of America's "energy-policy task force," representing the interests of 22 consumer-oriented groups. His total budget may reach $85,000 a year-a pittance beside the American Petroleum Institute's $16.7 million for 1974. "If it's a David v. Goliath situation," he says, "spell David with a small...
...condition that this fame is based mainly on the work of an artist. Certain conclusions may then be drawn as to his qualities." And how may one assess fame? On points. An artist gets 300 points, for instance, if he sells a work to the Museum of Modern Art or the Met, and so down through the Tate Gallery (200), and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin (160). For a one-man show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm he gets a 300, but one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris is worth only...
Bokassa's malign authority has seldom been challenged since he deposed his cousin, David Dacko, in a New Year's military coup in 1966. One of his first official acts was to abolish Parliament, the constitution and elections. Today Bokassa is virtually a one-man government. He is not only life President, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the only political party but, as a result of his periodic Cabinet shuffles, the holder of ten ministerial portfolios, ranging from Defense to Information to Mines. From his subjects he demands ostentatious displays of devotion...