Word: talkfest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the narrative line meanders a bit, and laughs do not detonate every minute, much of the evening consists of a fiendishly clever talkfest. Some of it is bantering class raillery, some of it Shavian disquisition-as when Mrs. Rogers delivers a monologue on the advantages of a strictly segregated society-and some of it prime non sequiturish zaniness out of the theater of the absurd. When Eugene goes into a huff, for in stance, and threatens to leave the apartment, Mrs. Rogers tells him that he must not go: "The time is 3 in the morning . . . streets are filled...
...fleeting hour last week, it seemed more like a reunion and a radical talkfest than a murder trial. In an empty New Haven, Conn., jury room, Black Panther Chairman Bobby Scale met and embraced his old friend, Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton. Court proceedings and stints in jail had kept them apart for nearly three years. Now Newton was present as a spectator, and Scale as a witness in the trial of Black Panther Lonnie McLucas. Said Newton of the encounter: "It was beautiful. I had heard Bobby was fasting, but he looked like he was putting on weight...