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...world's leading authority on cranes, who has had extraordinary success breeding the birds in captivity. Last week, in the company of a Chinese official, a pair of 4 1/2-ft.-tall black-necks arrived at Archibald's headquarters to further test his matchmaking skills. Says Archibald of the female Lan-lan (which means flower) and the male Yang-yang (sun): "They are birds of the superlative...
...black-neck's mating habits, Archibald does not anticipate the need for a repeat performance of his avian minuets. "We have all the therapy we need to get the cranes turned on," he says. Still, Archibald has developed something of a crush on one of the black- necks. "Lan-lan is such a sweetie," he says. "When I first met her, she came over and started preening and chirping. It was as if we were old friends...
Ewing, who won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, received the honor from his number one lan, City Councilor and State Rep Saundra Graham...
...overblown musical comedy it once appeared to be. Although many singers have used Porgy as a springboard to fame (Leontyne Price, for example, in 1952), the Met production reveals it as essentially a choral opera. It is in choruses like Gone, Gone, Gone and Headin' for the Promise' Lan' and the extraordinary Oh, Doctor Jesus, in which six independent musical lines, notated without bars, move freely against a hummed background, that the voice and soul of the residents of Catfish Row are heard. Porgy is their story, and the celebrated songs like Bess, You Is My Woman Now are only...
...early 60's also saw the magazine branching into parody issues. After securing a contract to put out a national parody of Mademoiselle in 1961, the 'Poon in 1963 went on to mimic the Saturday Review, and then Lan Fleming in a nationally distributed parody,Alligator...