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...attended the prestigious National Cathedral School, an all-girls academy. She was a star point guard on the basketball team and was known as "Spo," short for "Sportin'." She also lettered in two other varsity sports, and was president of the student council and valedictorian of her class...
...Jefferson Clinton, who is America's outstanding mountebank of love. Much of his own crowd has now turned on Clinton and cast him down from the Tarpeian Rock. Hard to think of Clinton as Coriolanus, of course; the Roman was a man of fierce principle. Clinton is more like Sportin' Life. Our first black president, as Toni Morrison called him, has banished himself to 125th Street, there to condescend to the African-Americans (they don't yet seem to mind it) and to profit from the subtle dynamic dictating that the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
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...honey man, there goes the strawberry seller, stopping the action cold. Musically, the composer settles for a reprise when new material is clearly called for: Summertime, that delicious throwaway, comes back three times. And, surely, the jaunty tune of A Red-Headed Woman is more appropriate to the suave Sportin' Life than to the macho Crown...
...Charleston, S.C., Porgy is the story of a crippled beggar's unconquerable love for Bess, a lady of easy virtue. So strong is Porgy's passion that he kills his rival, Crown, and when Bess is whisked off to New York by the smooth-talking Sportin' Life, Porgy quixotically sets out after her in his goat cart. Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones and Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. Other composers who have tried their...