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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtually certain to be defeated. The planners' hope is to get all the controversy settled in an atmosphere of reasonable civility before Jackson mounts the podium on Tuesday night to deliver what is certain to be a rousing and rhythmic speech. The occasion will serve as a rare prime-time showcase for the free-verse Jacksonian oratory that stirred predominantly black audiences to near frenzy during the primary campaign...
Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, has been given a tenured position by the California school. But in a rare move, Harvard has allowed him to retain his Harvard chair for the next three years, during which time Wilson will split his time between the two schools...
...underwear we made ourselves from bed sheets." Noble's crime: sermonizing from his pulpit about Lucifer (a reference to Castro) seducing and deceiving the angels (the Cuban people). Once, anticipating a prison visit by foreign delegations, guards ordered prisoners to don new baseball uniforms and play a rare morning baseball game. But the visitors kept coming throughout the day. As a result, said Noble, "I think we played 70 innings before the guards said, 'That's enough...
...even way up there at the top where the air is thin, Rubén Blades would seem a rare, highflying creature. His songs have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella...
...great-lady gestures of a strung-out dowager. One yearns for the buoyant charm that Vanessa Redgrave brought to the role in a 1973 London revival. But charm, alas, cannot be learned, earned or rented for the night. It is a quality as easy to perceive, and as rare to achieve, as Style. -By Richard Corliss