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Most of the companies were already sufficiently established to be active throughout the U.S. at festivals, in smaller cities or on college campuses. By bringing them together in one big bash, and by risking the inevitable flops along with the successes, the City Center hoped to give the companies a kind of exposure and impact that otherwise would be beyond their reach. Alas, ticket sales were disappointing, and the City Center (which tried a similar venture on a smaller scale two years ago) has no immediate plans for another marathon. All the more reason to cheer the companies that most...
...Nobody in Sweden calls me princess any more," said Sweden's Princess Christina, 29, thus enabling a roomful of Manhattan connoisseurs to admire the royal décolletage, which ended at about the navel, without committing lèse-majesté. The occasion: a money-raising bash to buy paintings from various worthy artists. After panting up the 80 Steps to Host Robert Rauschenberg's panoramic pad, the 300 guests nibbled at salmon and sipped Muscadet (from artistic plastic cups) while ogling a Who's Who of the beaux-arts, notably Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist...
...first contact with the big name professors came at a Currier House Ice Cream Bash given by co-Masters Paul Levine and Ursula Goodenough. We were amazed to eat ice cream with a Nobel Laureate while chocolate syrup dripped down his chin. But although we were nervous, things went well, and our experience at the Bash made us relatively certain that professors would be willing to talk to fledgling freshmen...
...hardest of all belongs to a luxuriantly mustachioed suburban dealer of Chevrolets and Fiats named Dick Balch. He moves his wares with the help of a 12-lb. sledgehammer. In ten-second TV spots, Balch has used the hammer to bash in the windshields, headlights and fenders of some 200 of his shiny new cars. His cockeyed routine often includes a devil's costume, a maniacal post-impact laugh and the question, "If you can't trust your car dealer, who can you trust?" This bang-up if nonsensical commercial has drawn attention as well as plenty...
Woodstock created the cosmic-scale rock festival; Altamont butchered it and Mary Sol may have killed it. Some 30,000 youths in regimental beads and headbands set out for Puerto Rico during Easter Holy Week for a bash thrown by the tireless festival promoter, Atlanta's Alex Cooley. For their $149 they got hopelessly inadequate transportation, a generally tepid show, exorbitant concession prices, scant drinking water, little emergency medical care, poor sanitary conditions and the tragedy of four deaths, one of them violent...