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...string of thefts from the second floor bathroom of Weld Hall, three women are suspected of stealing $83 worth of cosmetics. The thefts, which include two curling irons and a bottlerof shampoo, occured Saturday between 2 and 4 p.m., according to police records...
Along Harlem's 125th Street, the main artery of what was once the heart and soul of black America, a group of embittered black protesters demonstrates against the string of tidy Korean shops that now almost dominate the thoroughfare. In Miami, native blacks are beginning to feel like spurned foreigners as ambitious Cubans give the city a Latin rhythm and take over what were once bastions of black business. On the grim concrete playgrounds of Powelton Village in West Philadelphia, black children call their Asian classmates "chinks" and "gooks." The Asians, quick learners all, call the blacks "spooks" and "niggers...
...Schuman), with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long had a fascination with the otherworldly. In such works as Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, the two piano suites of Makrokosmos and the string quartet Black Angels, he combines a distinctive, flamboyant sense of instrumental color with a darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted Landscape employs an amplified piano and an exotic battery of more than 45 different percussion instruments to paint a vibrant picture of a ghostly landscape...
...mode, incorporating an authentic urban snarl into his impeccable diction. His hapless narrator enjoys perfect security by disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself to Wren after he escapes a bomb planted in his apartment by the Liberation Front...
...most famous teenager go to celebrate the end of her teens? Gosh, gee, well, why not a male strip joint? Accompanied by her mother and a retinue of 17 femme friends (some from Princeton), Brooke Shields oh-oh- ogled the boys at Chippendales in Manhattan as one G-string-clad male after another gyrated in her direction. "She was giggling," reported a guest to the New York Post. "Sometimes she looked scared. She was very natural, very receptive, very nice to them." And, despite the salacious surroundings, very ladylike. When one hunk hoisted Shields into his arms, she demurely reached...