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Despite his current political troubles, Soyinka is both a cultural and a popular hero in Nigeria. When he drinks palm wine at his favorite juju bars, people improvise songs to him. His plays share that infectious humanity...
...speed is a Rambler station wagon. He leaves the wheeling and dealing to his manager, Dick Linke, a Hollywood slicker who limits Nabors to a weekly allowance of $75, pours the rest of his money into California real estate. Most recent acquisitions: a 160-acre farm near Palm Springs for $500,000, a 330-acre tract on an island near San Francisco...
Today, except for serving on civic boards, he relishes his ranch (a 200-acre spread with a private golf course near Palm Springs), his yacht (the 80-ft. Sirius II), his art collection (Rembrandt, El Greco, Vermeer, Rubens) and, above all, his privacy. Ahmanson runs his establishment from his midtown Los Angeles mansion. "I haven't met an employee in 20 years," he muses. "In insurance, maybe I had too much of people...
...short Chinese poem, Bernard Bragg, who studied under Marcel Marceau, creates visual haiku with the line "a wave carries the moon away and the tidal water comes with its freight of stars," by forming a crescent with his upraised hand, then slowly lowering it over an undulating outstretched palm. The signing of Joe Velez makes more hilarious sense out of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky than the words ever do when spoken...
...calls more attention to himself than to those he introduces. Lincoln Center's New York Film Festival, which opened last week, has always been more seemly than its European counterparts, because it gives no awards; thus there are never any egos jockeying backstage for the coveted Silver Palm or Golden Frog...