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...Piper-Heidsieck champagne, Haig & Haig Scotch, Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston) is the way Manhattan-based Obolensky makes a living. When Alexander's department store in Manhattan decided to compete with rival Ohrbach's in copying original Paris dresses, they automatically turned to Obolensky, who pulled off a smash fashion show using models named Baroness Fiona Thyssen and Princess Ira von Furstenburg. "They were such good girls to do a favor," says Obolensky...
Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...statement of U.S. Commissioner of Education, Harold Howe, that he considered them "unjustified." The current American dream is to send one's sons to college, and -- barring a major escalation of the Vietnam war -- there is no reason to believe that Congress will be any more willing to smash the voters' dream next year...
...goals. The Negro theater, yesterday nothing more than a dream, is a flourishing reality today, with black companies and stages all over the U.S. and more than a dozen Negro dramatic groups in Harlem alone. The new, all-Negro Hello, Dolly!, with Pearl Bailey and Cab Galloway, is a smash hit on Broadway-and it is played without any specific Negro overtones...
...music with "the structure of poetic drama." Such a forbidding structure could cramp their financial fortunes, which at the moment are wide open: both of their albums, The Doors and Strange Days, are among the top five on the sales charts; Light My Fire has been one of the smash singles of the year. But they don't seem worried, since the more complex forms come closer to fulfilling their apocalyptic imagination. Says Morrison: "We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves...