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Milt Jackson bent and swayed over the vibes Saturday night at the Jazz Workshop, sweating and smiling briefly at the audience every time he finished a solo break. And with every note Milt sounded, the Workshop was one note closer to the end of its 15-year-long stint as Boston's prime center for live entertainment...
...spokesman for The Globe said Erlanger was shot as he returned to his hotel room at about 8:30 a.m. As he bent down to pick up a newspaper, the assailant appeared, pointing a gun at Erlanger and demanding money. Erlanger began to rise, and the gun went off, wounding him in the abdomen...
...memorable and, sadly, the most prescient example of this theme came in Greene's The Quiet American, about Vietnam in the days when the Americans were still only supplying arms to the French. The reformist zealot there was a clean-cut, self-serious American adviser named Pyle who was bent on saving the Vietnamese for Democracy--by strategically wiping them out--and took as his bible the cold-warring treatises of an Ivy League academic named York Harding (Walt Rostow? Probably; it was too early for Sam Huntington.) Next to Pyle, the weary aloofness of the British journalist, Fowler, seemed...
Driving to work one wintry day, Richard Gaskill of Glenview, Ill., suddenly felt a sinking sensation. Result: two blown tires, two bent wheel rims, a lost hubcap and a bill for $191.14. In Boston last week, it took 20 men to extricate Patrolman William Mahoney and his 1,000-lb. horse from a 3 ft.-by-3 ft. crevasse on a pathway in the city's Public Garden. In Manhattan, officials are watching claims briskly mount against the city as a result of damaged roadways...
...concept of Clint Eastwood as the justice-bent dope is more important than Richard Dreyfuss as the awestruck moron being carted off to Mars where everything will be just fine...