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Cutthroat newspaper competition is on the wane in most U.S. cities, but not in Boston. The big daily papers, the Globe, the Herald Traveler, and the Record American, are not scrapping. But two small weeklies that feature radical politics, rock-music and movie reviews, plus gamy classified ads, are presently engaged in a fierce-and profitable-battle for readers and revenues. Moreover, their hard-digging reporting is beginning to stir up the downtown dailies as well...
...popular hair style, it gradually billowed from close-cropped cuts into dramatic, spherical clouds that framed the heads of both women and men. Now that blacks feel more secure about their identity and are achieving some of their political goals, the popularity of the Afro has begun to wane. Though the style is still much in evidence, it is already passé with many black fashion leaders...
These characters all seem to be trapped in an unlucky cocktail party that everyone senses is a dud evening. Their voices whine, wane and falter until the grim last line and title of the play reduces everyone to glum silence...
...production is well worth seeing. Ionesco's popularity may be on the wane these days, but his best plays- and this is one of them- are always worthy of attention...
...what they think of the Panthers' Ten-Point Program; as the dozens of jurors move through the courtroom like the Silent Majority on parade. The politics are obvious as the observers endure the body searches; they band together in sharing food, drinks, books, chairs, worry about how thin and wane Huggins has become, worshipfully note Seale's daily state of mind, and then reflect it, scurry out of the courtroom at the end of the day to catch a last glimpse of the defendants being led away...