Word: roach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City police lieutenant. Savalas-three-piece suits, thick stogie, shaved head and all-makes the most of it, giving the kind of magnetic, idiosyncratic performance that can carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...
Although the roach problem is not particularly acute this year and the level of infestation has never been excessively high, the cockroaches appear perennially to plunder students' rooms...
...Roach Domiciles...
...desk. The glowing space of light and warmth, along the book shelves and above the desk, summon for me a wealth of English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead their hungry, hot and agonizing lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that all of his labors...
AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIETY CONCERT--Whoever assembled this festival of black music, poetry, and dance should get the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Henry Kissinger. Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Sonia Sanchez, Olatunji, Webster Lewis, Jaki Beyard, the Black Youth Ensemblle and the Universal Dance Company are combining their talents Friday night at Tufts for an evening that should be heavy on jazz, soul and spirit. At $3, Tufts is probably offering the season's outstanding bargain in music...