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...tonics that would help revive the sagging U.S. economy, few would be more potent than a turnaround for the long-depressed American auto industry. For that reason, the news out of Detroit last week was especially encouraging. The automakers announced that May sales of American-built cars surged 11% from the same period a year...
Moko speaks as a tribal skeptic. If Livingstone's God is potent, why do the rains not come? Barred from Sechele's bed, she slithers back into it like a serpent of old Nile. When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really...
Guide's mistress (Anita Morris), torridly voluptuous in body-hugging see-through lace, is another stereonought. As she flaunts her breasts and wiggles her derriere, she disintegrates into a burlesque of female sexuality. The evening's most potent aphrodisiac is Montevecchi's display of her wares and her wiles in a number called Folies Bergeres...
After having had its potent and lacerating world premiere at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater, his most recent play has now opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theater. The initial scenes of "Master Harold"...and the Boys are amiable, even cozy. It is a rainy late afternoon, and two blacks are tidying up the St. Georges Park Tea Room, a modest luncheonette. The elder and brighter, Sam (Zakes Mokae), putters about while Willie (Danny Glover), a simpler soul, mops the floor. The two interrupt their labors from time to time to polish up fox-trot and waltz steps...
...ball skimmed the net and fell onto Grossman's side. It Grossman had been able to capture one of those two points, he would have had the opportunity to serve with a 5-2 advantage in-the third set. Thus, he could have forced doubles competition. Harvard's most potent and refined weapon over the last half of the regular season...