Word: timbuktu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back, along with several hundred other guests, including her daughter, Kitt McDonald, 16. The occasion: a reception in honor of the tenth anniversary of the restoration of Ford's Theater. "First I thought I shouldn't go," said Kitt, 50, who attended between performances in the musical Timbuktu! at Washington's Kennedy Center. "Now I'm very glad I went. Mr. Carter looked at me and he smiled as though he understood...
...whiz who made The Wiz is now turning Kismet into Timbuktu!-and bringing it to Broadway. Borrowing eleven songs and the plot from the 1953 hit musical, Director-Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince...
Between Time and Timbuktu. At Off the Wall, nightly...
...know. If the CRP is actually closer to an urban economics program than to a professional training school, it does not clearly belong in the Design School, he says. In fact, he says that "we might as well be in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or in Timbuktu, for that matter...
Jaworski, 71, had comfortably settled back into his lucrative Houston law practice after accumulating the evidence that did much to force Richard Nixon's resignation. When O'Neill and fellow Texan Wright called to try to persuade him, Jaworski says, "I wish I had been in Timbuktu." But, he adds, they "insisted." So, ignoring friends' warnings that he might "screw up" his Watergate reputation, he accepted-and agreed to serve without pay. Says Jaworski: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts...