Word: starrs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appointment of Kevin O. Starr, an associate professor of English on leave since June, to the post of interim city librarian in the San Francisco library system has sparked a minor political controversy in San Francisco...
...Francisco Library Commission, a seven-member board chosen by the mayor, appointed Starr to the post upon the recommendation of Mayor Joseph Alioto. Alioto met Starr here last Spring and offered him a position as an executive aide in June...
Liberation from any historic context was one of the main tenets of Futurism--this was one reason many of the Italian Futurists turned Fascist later on, according to David R. Ignatius's theory--but it doesn't make for absorbing drama. David Starr Klein as Mayakovsky and David Neill as the man with balloons are particularly effective in minimizing the play's difficulties, Joann Green's direction is effective when there's dialogue going on but understandably weaker during the less than pregnant silences, and Allan Grossman's fine music lifts a couple of speeches into the realm of coherence...
Many of the girls are well-known Sunset Strip characters with names like Sable Starr or Lori Lightning, and their accoutrements are kookier than their names: glitter makeup, an electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay and transvestite crowds attracted by performers like Alice Cooper and David Bowie have included one fan dressed as a ladybug and another as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Indeed, so bizarre is the show on the sidewalk that it produces another kind of damage problem: distracted motorists...
...they don't have what you want they will get it for you. Browsers can, be they greenhorn or fanatic, make a lifetime of it. At Grolier's (6 Plympton St.) you never know what rare antique find you may happen upon. It is the same story at the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.), and the Mandrake Bookstore (8 Storey...