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...name the most obvious ones, all of which, like Runaways, either originated or generated excitement at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Greenwich Village: Hair, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and A Chorus Line. This musical's basic structure derives from Chorus Line. Like the gypsies in that show, who deliver soliloquies as to why they ran away to Broadway to dance, the bruised youngsters in Runaways sing songs of woe about fleeing ugly homes for streets and scenes sometimes even darker. What Elizabeth Swados, 27, here portrays in a dramatically erratic...
...that's when Harvard came alive, breaking the Huskies' swarming press with a rainbow assortment of crisp passes, jumpers, driving layups and shots off the glass...
...program in which the guests play themselves," so Denis Healey, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted the BBC's invitation to appear in a TV parody of The Wizard of Oz. Decked out in a red cape and his own extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed with money...
Over and over, the convention was described as "a rainbow of women." No previous women's gathering could begin to match its diversity of age, income, race, occupation or opinion. There were 1,442 delegates who had been elected at 56 state and territorial meetings that were open to the public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie...
...experiences of black women are as foreign to their existence as the Dead Sea scrolls. Too many men are unable or unwilling to understand how the exclusive social order which they have constructed inevitably frustrates the aspirations of those it excludes. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf poignantly expresses those frustrations. The play does so in a format so effective that one can hardly imagine anyone, black, white, male or female leaving the theater without hearing its cry and comprehending its message...