Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driveway, past rows of huge flower arrangements sent from all over the world, to the bronze plaque marking Presley's grave. They pass by at a rate of about 1,200 an hour. "Just being close makes me feel good," says Fay Matheny, 34, a factory worker from Richmond, Va. Karen Christ, 30, of Canton, Ohio, calls the ground "impressive, hallowed," and laments that people "have pulled off bark and written on tree trunks with red pens." Among the many flowers is a pink teddy bear pinned with a note reading: "My love for Elvis lives...
Instead we have a new version, set in 1911 and entitled The Passion of Dracula, fashioned by Bob Hall and David Richmond, men with more experience in acting and directing than in writing. It opened in New York last September and is still running at the off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater. The New York director, Peter Bennett, has repeated his assignment with the newly assembled cast here, as have Allen Cornell (set and lighting) and Jane Tschetter (costumes...
...most important difference, however, is one of tone. The old play was written as a straight melodrama, with everything to be taken relatively seriously. But Hall and Richmond have intentionally laced their play with lots of funny lines; and one remark in the third act rightly puts the audience into an uproar...
With law degrees from both Washington and Lee (LL.B. '31) and Harvard (LL.M. '32), Powell practiced law for 35 years with one of Richmond's oldest firms. His politics were those of a patrician Virginia Democrat, though he often supported Republicans in national elections. As chairman of the Richmond school board in 1959, he won a hard-fought battle against the state's segregationists, who were urging massive resistance to the Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation. As president of the American Bar Association in 1964-65. he persuaded colleagues to support legal...
Slender, bespectacled and scholarly, Powell, 70, works six days a week in his Supreme Court office and usually takes home briefs that he reads until past midnight. When the court recesses for the summer, he spends much of his time studying briefs in an office that he has in Richmond. In Washington, his favorite relaxations are dinner parties and watching the Washington Redskins; in his otherwise spartan law chambers, he has an autographed picture of Running Back Larry Brown. Powell also likes to go duck and quail hunting. At night his wife of 42 years, Josephine, sometimes reads histories, biographies...