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...there is a spate of new books focused on slaves and enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges...
...petition. They sign, but the couple are not clear about what's going on. "I don't know. What's it for?" asks Arline. And some of those who think they know, well..."It's to get money from politics and put it into the environment," insists Velma Marotte. "More stars should get out and do this," says her friend Ethel Degal...
...Velma M. McEwen '00, co-chair of BGLTSA, has a less optimistic view of Harvard...
...Italian chef, trying to keep others in touch with reality in "Slaw and Order," a student-written lunchroom mystery, continuing performance in the Leverett Old Library this weekend. Reflecting back to "Scooby Doo" days, one remembers the key elements to a good cartoon mystery: clues (slowly revealed, usually by Velma), suspense, a climactic ending and a rockin' Mystery Machine. It is possible to accept a lack of the Mystery Machine, due to the size limitations at the Leverett Old Library, but, one leaves "Slaw and Order" with a bad taste in his mouth, recalling another distant memory--a meal...
...recreations of the health inspector's death. Early on, he brings several moments of entertainment with his unctuous gestures. Later, a sub-plot, involving the unreaction of samplers brought out a few chuckles from the audience. But, these moments do not quite add up to a great play. Even Velma knows that it takes more than the discovery of a magnifying glass and phosphorescent paint to solve the crime...