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...grew up in the Southwest where squash racquets are forsaken for phalanges and metacarpals (that's fingers and hands). Handball is played in the schools and sweaty YMCAs of towns with names such as Albuquerque, Amarillo and El Paso...
...Sweet Dreams", I don't blame you for not wanting to hear the rest. But those don't belong on the same record with the other songs. "Sin City" and "One of these Days" are perfectly suited to her--beautiful songs with painful, longing lyrics. Her own composition, "Amarillo", a ballad about losing her lover to a pinball machine, shows a nice sense of humor...
...least in the opinion of Thomas Austin Preston Jr., a.k.a. Amorillo Slim, 46. Preston, who parlayed his 1972 victory in Las Vegas' World Series of Poker into a tour of TV talk shows and a movie role in California Split, was arrested by his home-town police in Amarillo, Texas, last week. Charged with felonious bookmaking on football games, the lanky, slow-talking gambler drew a short stay in Potter County jail before his release on $25,000 bail. "I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," complained Preston later, adding that he would surely...
...first production, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, featured Cornell as the consumptive Elizabeth Barrett. In 1933 Cornell took the company on a landmark 21,000-mile road trip through the U.S., bringing The Barretts, Shaw's Candida and Romeo and Juliet to such places as Amarillo, Texas, and Portland, Me. Cornell's fine eye for casting led her to offer early breaks to such talents as Gregory Peck and Orson Welles. She continued her throaty-voiced performances until 1961, when McClintic died and she retired. "I couldn't do anything after that," she said. "He always gave...
...architect to rise in Texas in the past year (the other three are Louis Kahn's barrel-vaulted Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth [TIME, Jan. 15], Philip Johnson's white cubist Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi and Edward Durell Stone's stark brick Amarillo Art Center). Certainly the Mies building is the most problematic- an anthology of his vices and virtues...