Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLD STORAGE by RONALD RIBMAN...
...third of any given Ronald Ribman play seems to have been typed on a missing ribbon. It makes him a tantalizing dramatist whose characters are like stripteasers of the mind; they fling off humor, eloquence and poetry but cannot openly discard some essential inner aspect of their being...
...basics, return-to-the-land ethos among the post-Viet Nam young. Says Craig Williams, 29, a senior at Cornell: "I thought it was the type of profession where there would be a lot of freedom-freedom about where 1 could live and what I could do." Adds Ronald Schafer, a junior at the University of Illinois: "Most people are motivated by respect for the animal kingdom...
...passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, though Meany & Co. had expressed a clear preference for Ronald Brown, head of the Washington office of the Urban League. Last week Carter belatedly did throw labor about its only sop on appointments: he chose John Fanning, a union favorite, to be chairman of the National Labor Relations Board...
...Mailer and Lillian Hellman to give awards. Missing were Bob Hope, John Wayne and most of Old Hollywood; New Hollywood (whose spokesperson increasingly seems to be Jane Fonda) was so in evidence that even onetime McGovernite Warren Beatty observed that somebody ought to put in a good word for Ronald Reagan. All this earnestness was the work of Director William Friedkin, producer of the 49th Academy Awards presentation, who had ruled out all the traditional stuff that he felt had made filmdom's annual bash "tacky, like some Roman event." Beatrice Straight won Best Supporting Actress for her brief...