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...clever, taking advantage of the bassoon's peculiar, step-like dexterity; the third movement's themes are almost jolly. But at other times it's hard to tell whether the composer intended what sound like humorous effects; the second movement's creeping themes were reminiscent of the Pink Panther's sly theme song. Similarly, the soloist's first entries in the first movement are preceded by total silence, with only a bass thumping in the background, as if something clandestine were about to happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With HRO, Bassoonery Takes Center Stage | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

Also featured are former Black Panther Lawrence Hayes, who is also a former death row prisoner, Boston University Emeritus History Professor Howard Zinn and Brown University Professor of English William Keach...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Profs Protest Death Penalty | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...Victoria (the down-on-her-luck English opera singer who, desperate for work, agrees to become a woman-impersonating-a-man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act, etc.). The show's writer and director is her husband Blake Edwards, who after a long career in films (the Pink Panther series, as well as Victor/Victoria) has chosen to embark on musical theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: LE JAZZ NOT SO HOT | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...Representatives Gary Franks of Connecticut and Charles Rangel of New York, along with the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P., announced that they could not join Farrakhan no matter how laudable the event's goals, while some women's organizations raised objections to Farrakhan's exclusion of females. Said former Black Panther Angela Davis: "No march, movement or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners...can be considered a positive step." Jesse Jackson, who may fear being eclipsed by Farrakhan, joined the march without hesitation, but others, from Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO THE BEAT OF HIS DRUM | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

Kathleen Neal Cleaver, professor of law at Emory University, was once a leader of the Black Panther Party...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: DuBois Fellows Begin Study | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

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