Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most engaging star turn is that of Denis Lawson, who appeared briefly in each of the Star Wars movies and won friends as the cagey innkeeper in Local Hero. He leads a sprightly revival of the 1929 English musical Mr. Cinders, a pleasant romantic twist on the Cinderella story, with irresistibly hummable songs and some wince-worthy gags (She: Assault and battery! Is that serious? He: I don't know about assault, but for battery they charge you and put you in a dry cell). The attractive, high-spirited cast avoids the twin pitfalls of archaeologist awe and camp...
...Student protests over University investments in firms doing business in South Africa took a new twist from the rallies that have taken place in previous springs. A group of seniors set up, and the Undergraduate Council agreed to administer an Endowment for Divestiture, an escrow account which will be turned over to Harvard on the condition that it divests within the next 20 years. Another band of students held a week-long hunger strike as a symbolic protest of Harvard's policies. (For a comprehensive look at South Africa and its connections with Harvard, see Section...
...1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually led: to Chubby Checker and the Twist, to the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Woodstock, and that cradle of national decline-- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll...
...1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually led: to Chubby Checker and the Twist, to the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Woodstock, and that cradle of national decline-- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll...
...shift from protest to politics, some venerable black institutions ironically are getting left behind. The N.A.A.C.P., once the pre-eminent champion of racial justice, is rived by internal feuding. The bitter personality clash between Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson and Executive Director Benjamin Hooks took an unexpected twist last week when Wilson bowed to pressure from 2 angry board members and | backed down from her decision to suspend Hooks. Then she, instead, was asked by the board to resign...