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...plot centers around a series of coups in an unnamed archduchy, in which increasingly more ruthless leaders usurp the throne. lonesco takes this all-to-obvious premise--e.g. that power corrupts--and revels in its inanity. While facing execution for leading an unsuccessful rebellion, Candor (Glen Whitney) declares that he is a historical dead-end, and that his "rebellion was necessary, if only to prove I'm a criminal." Much of the humor of the play arises from the hackneyed, emotionally-inappropriate intellectualizations in which the characters are endlessly engaged...
...Whitney Stuart, Yale's number three, blanked Harvard's Marty Winnick...
...first Harvard-Yale match-up, the Crimson managed to contain Eli center Chris Dudley to only 11 points and 11 rebounds in 35 minutes of action, but dropped a 54-45 decision at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Dudley is currently the league's leading rebounder (8.6 r.p.g.) and third-leading scorer (15.9 p.p.g...
Among the few respectable things in that stew of American vanguard kitsch, the 1985 Whitney Biennial, was a large painting by a 36-year-old artist named Terry Winters. Done in a thick, ocherous impasto, which produced a paint surface that looked both lavish and summarily abbreviated, the image suggested (of all unlikely things) mushrooms: swollen glands like morels, crinkled and cellular, standing up in ranks like an array of mysterious brown balloons. It was odd to find any painting in such a show that addressed itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature...
...Lord has certainly been smiling on Whitney Houston. The daughter of Gospel Legend Cissy, Whitney, 22, began as a model six years ago, and her face had already graced the pages of Seventeen, Glamour and Vogue when she decided last year to follow in her mother's vocal tracks. The result has been nothing less than glorious. Her strong and silky voice has made her first album, Whitney Houston, a best seller for 46 weeks. Last week at the American Music Awards, Houston won for best rhythm-and-blues single (You Give Good Love) and best R.-and-B. video...