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Bitter Statements. Over the years she remained in the public eye; in the '50s she made several bitter statements about discrimination against her fellow blacks in the U.S. That did not prevent her from coming home periodically to perform in the U.S., notably for a four-concert Carnegie Hall series in 1973 in which she wore a spangled body-stocking and a towering headdress of flamingo-colored plumes. It seemed for a moment that the Folies-Bergere might rise again. "My whole life has been my art and the theater, and I really think the contact is necessary...
...Nick about her. "Aw, don't worry about her," said Nick. "You'll like Debby when you meet her." This was the Debby Bartosch who went with Nick and me to the annual Pelican Avenue New Year's eve party, and at which Nick and Debby were scheduled to perform a "crab mating dance" for the throngs. They somehow failed their scheduled performance and ended up wrapped up in the same blanket in the back room, both passed out over a bottle of mad duck champagne. Maybe some year, I keep hoping...
...Saturday, F. John Adams and the Collegium Musicum will perform Bach's B-Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest mass ever written (sorry Missa Solemnis fans...
...with increasingly satisfactory results. At a recent meeting at Rutgers Medical School, plastic surgeons predicted that the number of breast reconstructions would continue to rise. Self-examination and mass screening programs are detecting an increasing number of early breast cancers* before they spread; that makes it possible to perform less disfiguring operations than the standard radical mastectomy, in which not only the breast but the lymph nodes under the armpit and the muscles of the chest are removed. As a result, doctors predict that many of the 89,000 women who will undergo breast surgery this year will be able...
Lawyers for the Medical Area Employees Organizing Committee continued yesterday for the fourth day in their efforts to demonstrate that clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area perform different work in different conditions from similarly classified employees in other parts of the University...