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...Quaker family in West Chester, Pa., Rustin from an early age dedicated his life to social causes. Trained as an activist by the Quakers, Rustin went to New York City and, unfortunately, dabbled in Communist Party activity before quitting in disgust in 1941. Mentored by black labor organizer A. Philip Randolph, Rustin worked in the trade-union movement before becoming a conscientious objector in World War II. He took his pacifism to an extreme, going to a federal penitentiary rather than in any way aiding the war effort...
...When he felt negotiations with the 12 banks had dragged on too long, he decided to play tough. He instructed the top lawyers of five of the major banks to come to his office. When they arrived, he lit into them. (One CEO was also present, Morgan Stanley's Philip Purcell.) "Spitzer was harsh, irate, yelling at times," one of the lawyers told TIME. Spitzer said he was fed up with their haggling, that they should be ashamed of what they had done to investors, that they were acting "like children in a sand box." He told them to settle...
...same criticisms might apply to the fact that both these fictional characters (and, it is hinted, Woolf herself) find what consolation they can in a rather dispassionate lesbianism. This ultimately proves insufficient to lend meaning to their lives or profundity to a grim and uninvolving film, for which Philip Glass unwittingly provides the perfect score--tuneless, oppressive, droning, painfully self-important...
...other anew. "I ruined your third act!" exults McCarthy. "I was your third act!" retorts Hellman. Ephron's play, alas, has two acts full of distractions and gimmicks. There are childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that wears thin quickly--and songs by Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia. The depths of pointlessness are reached in a vaudeville-style number featuring Frankie Fact and Dick Fiction...
...DIED. PHILIP BERRIGAN, 79, former priest whose fight against the Vietnam War and nuclear arms helped inspire a generation of antiwar dissenters; of cancer; in Baltimore, Md. Berrigan led the Catonsville Nine, which staged one of the era's most dramatic protests, dousing a bonfire of draft records with homemade napalm in a Catonsville, Md., parking...