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Then came the black knights. First, Charles Bluhdorn, ruler of the aggressive empire of Gulf & Western, cast covetous eyes at Prince's Armour. Secretly manipulating his pawns on Wall Street, Bluhdorn acquired almost 10% of Armour before Billy could blink. In the nick of time, an ally, the Trustbusters, came to Billy's rescue and went after Bluhdorn with mace and chain. Bluhdorn wisely sold his interest in Armour to another power, General Host, whose ruler, iron-willed Richard Pistell, also coveted Prince's realm. Pistell offered Billy's shareholders a chance to trade Armour stock...
...traveled back into the primordial oceans; he has learned to fly through his now familiar skies. For the past seven years, he has probed the vacuum of space, soaring as high as 853 miles above the earth. Now, after billions of years of evolution-and, incredibly, within the present blink of history-he is ready to make the great escape from his own planet...
...HAVE nothing against the word "fuck" per se. But when a playwright uses it as often as I blink my eyes, I expect him to provide some of the excitement this word suggests. In Sligar and Son, author Andy Hoye fires away with enough expletives for five LeRoi Jones one-acters, yet the four-letter word that most aptly describes his play is "dull...
...with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with the blotter edge. All this time, his feet are planted wide beneath the desk on the plastic shield. Always he looks srtaight at me, never glancing at his geometric handiwork. Blink, damn, you, blink...
Composed of aging S.D.S. types who can rattle off terms like "participatory democracy" and "new radicalism" without a blink, the new group aims to do for teachers what S.D.S. did for-and to-students. In other words, it means to define their political roles, uncover university complicity in "war research" and "social manipulation," meanwhile aiding those teachers whose jobs are jeopardized because of their revolutionary beliefs. In New York City, one group of young radicals set up a Summer Liberation School near Columbia University, while others have signed up for the city's eight-week Intensive Teacher Training Program...