Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dirty politics are by no means new to North Carolina. In 1950, voters were treated to a rough-and-tumble slugfest between Willis Smith and Frank Porter Graham. Smith, the Republican candidate, doctored photographs to show Graham's wife purportedly dancing with a black man. Red-baiting was rampant. And a young man named Jesse Helms, it is alleged, was intimately involved in Smith's negative propoganda campaign...
...North Cambridge area, extending from just north of the Cambridge Common up to Porter Square, has been changing in the past few years. As one resident, who favors Doyle's proposed townhouses over other projects, remarks, this threatens to make this stretch of Massachusetts Avenue into "Highrise Avenue." Two highrise condominiums have gone up within feet of the Francis Allyn site--in the past two years. The lucrative development potential of the popular neighborhood along with Cambridge's notoriously tight rental market has heightened the commission's dilemma...
...Know repeatedly reminds us just how much we do know. Imagine, if you will, a mere servant attempting to love a real person. You never know, it might work out, but only when the lady or gentleman in question is not really a lady or gentleman. At every opportunity, Porter shows Gaston and Maria unable to fathom the protocol of the Penthouse...
Obsessed by such mundanities of the rules of love, our lovers could just as easily master the rule laden world of a contemporary singles bar, but their story becomes entertainment through the familiar skill of Porter and the refreshingly polished performances of the small cast. We have come to expect much from Cole Porter, and You Never Know, featuring such familiar tunes as "By Candlelight," "At Long Last Love," and "Let's Misbehave," does not disappoint...
When the Shubert brothers took on You Never Know, they felt compelled to add a heavy coating of glitz. The result was a near-total disaster. By contrast, the Huntington troupe has remained faithful to Porter's original conception of the play, mounting a production that captures all of Porter's charm and many of his faults--among them, a rather sportsmanlike view of romance...