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...together again. First Paul McCartney, 39, worked on three songs for Stop & Smell the Roses, the recent album of fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, 41. Then Paul decided that what the package needed was a brief video musical to go with the tunes. With Ringo's wife Barbara Bach, 35, and Linda McCartney, 39, he and Ringo made The Cooler, an eleven-minute featurette set in a futuristic prison policed entirely by women. Cooler stars Starr as a habitual escapee, with McCartney hamming his way through three roles, including one with dyed blond hair. Says Co-Director Lol Creme...
...Gatewood Elementary School's premier computerniks and regularly helps teachers introduce fourth-graders to the machines. At West High School in Wausau, Wis., Chris Schumann, 16, a junior, has made a name for himself by translating musical notes into digital form and getting a computer to play Bach and Vivaldi through its loudspeaker. Originally, Chris regarded computers as remote and forbidding, but that changed when he was introduced to his first micro. "It looked real friendly," he says. "It didn't overpower you. It wasn't this ominous thing but something you could get close...
...Paul Taylor Dance Company traveled to the hinterlands, people mistook the troupe for the June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason Show. The confusion ended at curtain time. Then, instead of metronomic chorines, the stage was peopled with muscular, disciplined dancers falling, posturing and accelerating to everything from Bach to Cage. Dressed as Elizabethan figures or satyrs in evening clothes, or in nothing more than bath towels, the company disturbed as many as it dazzled...
...with the surrounding woods and rocks. The chapel's architect, E. Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Ark., who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, describes it as a kind of reversal of gothic cathedral architecture. The trusses inside the structure form a repetitive, rhythmic lattice pattern as evocative as a Bach fugue...
EARLIER THIS YEAR, it became publicly known that John F. Kennedy '40 made tapes while he was in the White House--not show tunes or Bach, but conversations secretly recorded, no different from Richard Nixon. The messianic figure who called a country to seek a New Frontier seemed to have been dumped back in the old hinterlands of presidential spying; the cool and courageous war hero was bugging his own family, as dirty a deed as tackling during touch football...