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Before discussing the script, thought, it is only fair to give the Loeb players their due; and certainly, they deserve a rave. From Jon Goerner, who balances Figaro's cynical honesty with just the right degree of humor, to Linda Cameron, Figaro's master's love, to Jonathan Prince, the hilarious flunky who serves the highest bidder, the cast is one of the best assembled in some time at the Loeb. If at times we are given a few too many slapstick gags, these times are few. For the most part, the buffoonery is nicely balanced by a moment...
What intrigued Western observers last week was signs of tension between the two men. When Mugabe began to rave about how there could be no amnesty for war criminals and traitors after the liberation of Zimbabwe, Nkomo unceremoniously cut him off. When Mugabe told reporters he was a Marxist and would do his best to turn Zimbabwe into a one-party Marxist state, his more moderate colleagues appeared to be both embarrassed and annoyed. "Where is Robert?" demanded Nkomo irritably when Mugabe failed to show up at a press conference the two were supposed to give jointly. As it happened...
...like an Elvis Presley with brains, or Bob Dylan with looks," says Reed. "If you're intelligent at all, I'm a lot of fun." Finding the fun, however, can present a problem. Despite rave reviews for Street Hassle and a seismic stage show with which Reed is currently touring the country, playing his transparent Lucite guitar, radio play-crucial to an album's success-has been very limited. Says Arista President Clive Davis: "Every artist of original talent is a commercial challenge. Quality eventually wins out." He has no intention of urging Reed to cool down...
Meanwhile, students and freshman proctors are not preparing any rave reviews of the production. Students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education seem satisfied with the Core now that the amendments have passed, but a Crimson poll showed last week that 65 per cent of the students who were familiar with the Core opposed the plan...
...dealt him what he calls "the joker in the bourgeois deck," is always tempered by stoic irony. "Instead of being a driven writer," he notes, "I have become a driving writer." Entry for Sept. 22, 1976, two days after Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream opened to rave reviews on Broadway: "It's a good thing I did not go into New York. This morning Foumi complained of a severe toothache. So after driving Noah to school I had to take her to our dentist in Venice. He referred her to a dental surgeon in Brentwood...