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The first thing one notices about Mart Crowley, the man who wrote the very funny and very sad play about homosexuality called The Boys in the Band, is his uncanny resemblance in appearance and manner to Woody Allen. Like Allen, Crowley is small, boyish (age: 34), and balding. His speech...
Mr. Mirza's sitar seemed to wail out emotion in a vocal idiom characteristic of the centuries-old Kirana school in which he was trained. While other schools of sitar-playing emphasize greater instrumentality, Mirza's "singing sitar style offers a welcome depth of feeling to the western listener who...
The audience gave Auden a standing ovation at the end of the reading. "His poems go wumpety-wumpety," said one enthusiastic listener. "But this is the best reading I've ever heard."
"That's an insult!" a listener shouted. "Shut up!" retorted the speaker, none other than the Deputy Leader of Britain's Labor Party. George Brown was at it again. Fresh from his remarkable performance last month on an unofficial visit to the Middle East, where he insulted both...
When another angry listener accused him of saying "Is-rye-eel" in the Arab manner, Brown quickly responded: "I pronounce it the way my Jewish father-in-law pronounces it." Furthermore, he added, "I can't tell an Arab from a Jew. They are both Semitic peoples. They both...