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...vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner, a steam fitter, a hairdresser, the maitre d' at New York City's Rainbow Room and Wall Street types...
This may explain why the resentments the poor and middle class harbor at the end of the Reagan decade seem to have aggravated racial tensions rather than creating, as Jesse Jackson hoped, a "rainbow coalition" of poor and disaffected citizens of all colors. New York City has recently lurched from scholarly disputes about race to racial showdowns, a Milwaukee alderman has threatened to form a Black Panther militia if the city does not improve the conditions of blacks, and campuses across the country are so infected with intolerance that educators have organized mandatory "sensitivity training" sessions. In this climate...
...Howard P. Ramseur, co-chair of the grass-roots Working Committee for a Cambridge Rainbow, says it is too early for an accurate analysis. But like Gifford, he says he sees positive signs...
...payment of around $286,000. If a team makes it to the Final Four, the payout is a whopping $1,146,000 more. Some coaches wear $300 shoes and earn six-figure incomes. The temptation to cut moral corners in pursuit of the pot at the end of the rainbow is immense. Carril wants none of that. When someone asked him if he was disappointed by the number of fans attending Princeton games, he said he'd love to see more fannies in the seats. "But there are a lot of All-Americas over in the library, and there...
Breaks from convention seem to be de rigeur in this show. The first section is called "The Exploration of Conventions." The different actors read definitions from the dictionary, interviews from American Theater, and excerpts of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. We are also told in the program that we get a deconstructed version of As You Like It, but we are not sure we ever do. Before we think it has started, the first section is over, and the six actors take a dance break...