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Against the general backdrop of depressing economic developments and political realignments, the New Democratic Party and the National Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) are intensifying their cooperative electoral efforts. The Congress is preparing to commit an unprecedented number of staff people and field organizers to the NDP for the 60 days prior to election...
SUPERMAN, a musical comedy in two acts, is cleverly set against a comic-book backdrop of the city of Metropolis. In the upper left-hand corner of the stage is the "DC Comics" logo. Superman--played by Randy Stone '78--first appears by stepping out of a slit in the painted-on telephone booth. One has the sense early on in the show that Superman--and indeed all of the characters--step off the pages of a comic book onto the stage. Later on in the play, rather than use regular furniture in the Daily Planet newsroom, Borowitz utilizes flat...
...been almost 40 hours now since darkness became both backdrop and mood for the Harvard football team...
John Oates, who often writes slow and soft tunes, turns out a nice cut on Along the Red Ledge, with "Melody for a Memory." The pair make good use of string orchestration to provide a backdrop for Oates' mellow voice, echoed by a Hall falsetto. But this is typical Hall and Oates stuff, basically no different from the music on albums like Bigger than Both of Us or the less-successful Beauty on a Back Street. What distinguishes Along the Red Ledge as a worthwhile contribution to current pop music is the work that comes alive on the second side...
...will win in Rhodesia. But you can help us shorten the war." With those words, Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere urged the U.S. and Britain to renew and strengthen their efforts to bring peace to Rhodesia. The call came against a backdrop of increasingly violent warfare in that embattled country, where Cuban-trained black nationalist guerrillas are now using Soviet-supplied mortars, armor-piercing machine guns and heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles to battle Rhodesian forces equipped with helicopters, heavy artillery and Belgian automatic weapons. More than 1,000 soldiers and civilians died in September's fighting, about...