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...already worrying about the glowing threat. The area's five major observatories-including Kitt Peak, which expects to unveil a 150-in. telescope next year-recently petitioned the town fathers to shield and filter all mercury-vapor street lamps, ban all but essential searchlights, and pave roads with blacktop instead of lighter, reflective concrete. Aware of the observatories' contributions to the local economy, the Tucson councilmen agreed to consider the requests...
...single Fire and Rain, has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. A third album, Mud Slide Slim, will be released next month. Last month, Taylor was included in the predominantly classical Great Performers series at New York City's Lincoln Center. He has just finished a movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, for late spring release, and last week he began a sell-out national concert tour of 27 cities...
...Tops exemplifies one type of film done by Charles and Ray Eames, the toy films. These films are "purely visual and musical," said Eames. In their previous toy films, Charles and Ray Eames explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over blacktop. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
...watched the construction workers eat lunch in downtown New York. I began to understand why they wanted to beat up college students. They have to build buildings that no one wants, and then they have to eat lunch on the smelly, steaming tar and blacktop. Or they have to sit on concrete steps, eating a mushy egg salad sandwich about two feet from blaring car horns and smoking exhaust pipes. It they work near Fifth Avenue, they may have to watch women- the models that TV has told them to call beautiful- parade in front of them. Magazines...
...National Guardsman knows from the day his training begins that his enemy is not in the foreign rice-paddies, but on the blacktop of American streets. Yet the soldier in America understands as little about his opponent in the street as the soldiers in Vietnam know about the Viet Cong. Knowledge of the demonstrators can be gained in part by reading the newspapers; but there is more significantly, an attitude instilled in Guardsmen through the instruction they receive from the army...