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...members have done time with the Bvrds Dillard Clark as well as LA's second wring folk rock hand the ones that never made it past saloons. Scraped from these ruins each member knowing another from less successful days. Eagles have one man in common. David Gellen head of Asylum Records Geffen sent the band to play four sets a might for four weeks in a saloon in Aspen Gellen gave them the best-studio time in London and master engineer Glyn Johns--as well as virtually as much of a schedule as was necessary for the production of that...
Film Odyssey: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This 1919 German silent directed by Robert Wiene is one of the few textbook classics that holds up as more than a curiosity piece. A lunatiesire-controlling-the-asylum tale with nordant echoes of disheaval in Weimar Germany. CHANNEL 2. Wednesday...
...Yeats, Eliot and Frost. Yet he was also a thoroughgoing Fascist during the '30s and early '40s, pro-German and antiSemitic, a broadcaster of propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. He was released in 1958. Last May, Pound was nominated for the $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal by the literary commit tee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The nomination was rejected by a vote of the governing council...
...Four leftist Turkish guerrillas captured a Turkish Airlines flight out of Ankara and threatened to destroy the plane with guns and grenades if three political prisoners were not released. The gunmen diverted the flight to Bulgaria, where they were granted asylum...
...Willie Roger Holder, 24, a Viet Nam veteran, and Catherine Mary Kerkow, 20, a student, seized a Western Airlines flight en route to Seattle. They collected $500,000 in ransom money and flew to Algeria via New York (where Holder released 36 hostages). The Algerian government granted them asylum, but returned the money...