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{SPEAKER name="Gloria Foster"}
"Indeed," said Tortoise grimly, his eyes like headlight's in a
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shell that echoed cavernously. "Indeed."
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[[Audience Clapping]]
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{SPEAKER name="Unknown"}
During intermission, friends, the box office is open and tickets are on sale for fut-
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Silence
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A few selected shorts, a couple of coming attractions announcements, this Monday
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movies, and our Italian Film festival on Monday evenings, this week at seven thirty on Monday night,
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the original uncut version of this Visconti's film about the mad emperor Ludwig. A rare opportunity to see this
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film in this form, so please do come. A radio reminder, this weeks radio shorts, Sunday evening from
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six to seven p.m. on WNYC, 93.9 on your F.M. dial, this week, Gloria Foster reads Bessy
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Head and Linda Lavin reads Grace Paley so tune in Sunday evening. Then, a week from
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this Saturday, on March 28th, 11am to 11pm, Cynthia Space leads off the 8th week celebration
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by 11 New York organizations of the 100th anniversary of the death in 1892 of America's great
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poet visionary Walt Whitman. Leaves of grass, our event, will be a 12 hour Whitmaniacle
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weaving of which the warf and whoof will be the poems of leaves and grass plus Whitman's
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Prose works, specimen days, his letters, all read by 60 notable actors, including many of your
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favorite shorts readers. Musical settings of Whitman, for chorists and soloists including 5 world
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premiers of new setting that we've commissioned for that day. Whitman's letters, kids from PS75
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in children's poem inspired by Whitman, leaders of government industry and the arts reading his predictions
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from democratic vistas. This will be the only theatrical appearances this season of such folks as
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Congressman Ted Weiss and Bill Green, [[Audience Laughter]] Burrough president Ruth Messinger, Grace Paley,
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Assemblyman Jerrold Nadler making a rare stage appearance, Senators David Patterson and Franz Leichter
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Council speaker Peter Vallone, in his theatrical debut, and as Walt Whitman would say, lots more.
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Sex, war, politics, lyrical beauty, and it's all free a week from Saturday. That's 11
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in the morning. Now folks, a moment for some personal service, the kind of
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thing that makes you want to give large tax deductible contributions [[audience laughter]]
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to symphony space. This is from last weeks village voice and the classified personal ads I'm not making it up
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the ad read, "Larry at Selective Shorts, March 4th, enjoyed our conversation." [[Audience Laughter"]]
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"Let's meet for coffee. Victoria." And then Victoria giver her telephone number.
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Now Larry, [[Audience Laughter]] man to man, if you're sitting here
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and perhaps he isn't, March 4th was a non-subscription night, he could have been anybody,
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but if you can here this Larry, there are several possibilities. A) you saw the ad and you called.
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If so, fine, I have nothing further to say, you're both consenting adults
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and what follows is none of Symphony Spaces business. B) You saw the ad and you didn't call.
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In which case, ditto, life can be cruel, I think it's a shame, but ditto.
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Or C) You didn't see the ad at all because you don't read the Village Voice
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and who can blame you, I don't either. Someone called the ad to our attention,
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But if this is the case, two other possibilities occur now that tonight's intermission is over
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and we'll call them D an E. D) You never saw the ad but you and Victoria just happened [Speaker Laughs]
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[Audience Laughter] happened to run into each other tonight at intermission. And everything is going just fine
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and you don't need me, but also possible is E) You never saw the ad, you have not seen Victoria
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here tonight, either because she's not here, or because after all, a woman has her pride and while
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you're worth the price of an ad, you're not the only man that ever walked on God's earth
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Larry, and so now Larry, you are sitting here totally surprised by all this, intrigued
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flattered, provoked, stimulated, and wondering what to do. Look for her after the show is over,
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and explain your failure to call, but what if she's not here? Call her? What's her number?
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that issue of the voice is no longer on the stands, Larry you are in trouble, but don't worry, I have the number.
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I'm not gonna say it out loud now, in public for fear of embarrassing Victoria, though for God's sake
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she published her number in the Village Voice, but I will be standing near the exit door after the show,
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and you can get the number from me as a community service from the neighborhood arts organization that cares
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[[audience laughter]]
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And now- Victoria. Victoria. Man to woman, Victoria. If it's A, C, D, or E, you know
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where we stand, good luck to you, but if B, you never here from him, forget about him. See me later, we have a
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list of eligible, attractive, literary subscribers for a small tax deductible contribution less than
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another voice ad. You can have the numbers of 12 of them, 6 of them named Larry. [audience laughter]
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See me. Thank you. [Audience Laughter].
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Now, to present this evening final story, here once again is out host for this evening, Toni Cade Bambara
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[[Audience Clapping]]
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{SPEAKER name="Toni Cade Bambara"}
Thank you. Just back from Jamaica is Charles Keating. Who's just completed a pilot
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for the Hallsy-Brett production, Going to Extremes. This is the same outfit
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that brought Northern Exposure to television, and I'm sure Mr. Keating is familiar
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to all of you from Another World. He'll be [[Laughter]] [[Audience Laughter]]
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He'll be reading an excerpt from a rather extraordinary piece, called Meditations on History
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by Sherley Anne Williams, a Fresno reared, San Diego based educator.