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Through the White House switchboard. Gerald Ford spoke to Republican Senators from his home in Palm Springs, Calif. At the White House dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Carter even asked Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers to help out. She agreed and called Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker...
...musical based on Working, Author Studs Terkel's 1974 bestseller. Directed by Composer Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, God spell), the play is a working man's Chorus Line telling, in separate episodes, the stories of such characters as a steelworker, a supermarket checker, a teacher, a switchboard operator and a parking-lot attendant. The cast exuberantly hauls around ladders, scaffolds and dollies to tunes written for the show by James Taylor and others. The message? Says Terkel, whose book was based on 135 taped interviews: "Working people are brighter than we think. Their jobs may be drab, but they...
Makavejev--"Mak," as his fellow Yugoslavian professor Vlada Petric calls him--has had a standing invitation to teach at Harvard for three years, largely because of the reputation he built for himself with such award-winning feature films as "Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator," "Innocence Unprotected," "W/R: Mysteries of the Organism," "Sweet Movie," and "Man is Not a Bird...
...Center Screen at Carpenter Center opens its fall film series with Dusan Makavejev's 1968 film Innocence Unprotected. A visiting professor at Harvard this year, the Yugoslavian filmmaker has achieved international reknown with such films as Man is Not a Bird (1966). A Love Affair: Tragedy of a Switchboard Operator(1967), WR: Mysteries of the Organism(1971), and Sweet Movie(1974). Recognized for the vitality and independence of his hotch potch style--juxtaposing science and eroticism, matching up a switchboard operator with a rat exterminator--Makavejev is an exciting addition to Harvard's film department. He will be present...
Daughter of immigrants from Palermo, Costanza began her career as a switchboard operator. Over 24 years, she rose to executive assistant to a Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...