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Lady Sings the Blues has obviously been made to measure as Miss Ross's film debut, sort of an uptown, downbeat Funny Girl. Besides dispensing her styrene vocals, Miss Ross is also called upon to do a great deal of acting. In every reel, there is at least one sequence of turbulent anguish: Billie battling with her pusher; Billie in a padded cell; Billie watching her piano player (Richard Pryor) get beaten to death; Billie pleading for understanding and indulgence from her lover (Billy Dee Williams). Actress Ross attacks each of these crises in the same way-by raising...
...Partners, studied the square's history and decided that it was never a secluded enclave of culture, as commonly thought, but rather the meeting place of city-shaping forces. These include the six-lane Massachusetts Turnpike behind the square and a cluster of tall buildings near its uptown and downtown flanks. The Hancock Building thus had to be a high-rise to fit into, and escape the domination of, the new scale. From a distance, the tower actually helps to order the chaos of the city's bristling skyline...
Giving the cleaning ladies the night off, Radio City Music Hall opened its doors at midnight for a four-hour jam session that saw Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, and Milt Jackson tapping toes where the Rockettes usually toe-up to tap. Uptown at Yankee Stadium, the likes of Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan made a far more winning team than the stadium's usual inhabitants...
Unsmirched Wilde. One day last week, for example, Carmines zipped uptown to Manhattan's Town Hall for a recital of songs from some of the 58 shows he has written since 1961. Looking like a saintly, unsmirched Oscar Wilde, he sang in a brassy baritone, played some fleet-fingered piano, and filled the hall with resounding delight...
...from a consideration of their real enemies, but it also gives people the strength to go on in a world of adversity. Meaning is given to people's lives through their religion, the world is a fearful place, a powerful God gives strength in Roxbury or in Chicago's Uptown, we who do not live there must always try to un-derstand...