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Like true dramatists, the writers have sidestepped round-the-clock picketing in favor of more theatrical performances. Some 3,000 members picketed Walt Disney studios last month as a plane flew overhead trailing a banner that read STOP MICKEY MOUSING AROUND WITH OUR W.G.A. Last week they carried giant-size pencils and a banner in front of the Manhattan offices of Orion and Columbia Pictures. Line crossing is taboo. Says a writer: "This is a company town, and if word gets out that someone's a scab, they'd be barred from the guild for life...
...this is not a night for male spokesmanship, it is also not a night for male leadership. Organizers did ask men to walk at the back of the procession so that women could lead the march alone, but several men disregarded that request and walked directly behind the leading banner. Before there can be true equality between the sexes, men need to learn what it means to follow the lead of women...
...Banner went to St. Lawrence. The Saints captured the ECAC Championship earlier this month...
...Biggest Banner will go to one of the eight teams remaining in the NCAA Tournament. Teams from Maine to Merrimack to Minnesota will battle for the right to be called the nation's number-one college hockey team...
...animated diorama of 1830s concert life, a full panoply of period instruments thrillingly revived under the banner of musical authenticity. Assembled on the stage of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall last week were ranks of gut-stringed violins, wooden flutes, valveless horns, leather-headed kettledrums and even a pair of ophicleides (bass keyed bugles since supplanted by tubas). Standing before them, feet on the ground but soul in the sky, was Norrington, at 54 newly emergent as a formidable leader in the early-music movement...