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Getting Jimmy Carter elected is the grand design of Gerald Rafshoon, 42, the New York-born head of the Atlanta shop bearing his name. A University of Texas graduate, he cut his teeth doing publicity for 20th Century-Fox and founded his own shoestring outfit in 1963. He has 16...
The "Ragtime Dance Company," which closed the evening, came closer to technical ease. This melange of music hall parody is designed for soap-operatic hamming, and the company isn't formed from the Cologne Opera for nothing. Again, the essential humor of the piece was unrealized. Suggestions of parody were...
"This is a shoestring operation," says Frank Church, who, despite a late start and a money shortage, has won three primaries in three tries. His dream now is to capture Montana and Rhode Island this week, win Ohio next week, and run second to Jerry Brown in California. Few expect...
Operating on a shoestring budget out of storefront headquarters near Paris' Gare de Lyon railroad station, M.S.F. has sent medical teams flying off to the most remote corners of the world. Almost as soon as it gets word of a medical emergency, M.S.F. responds. A duty officer at the...
For sheer energy, historical savvy, wit and scrounging invention, Ruckus Manhattan is unique. Over the years, Grooms, Gross and their friends have been making their robust tableaux, always on a shoestring but never on such a scale. If one could envisage a fairground produced by Robert Crumb and Krazy Kat...