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...Dunster resident who asked to remain unidentified said yesterday he heard someone destroy the telephone booth outside Dunster early yesterday morning and yell, "I'll be back, Dunster House." Morse said the booth was destroyed but declined to say whether any of the incidents were connected...
...violence, often aimed at the influx of homosexuals. A local newspaper ad placed by a Baptist minister last month called for vigilantes to take action against "female impersonators and queers." Victims of recent violence include a man beaten with a pipe as he used a phone booth, a jogger almost run down by a car, a local museum director shot and killed, a restaurant owner beaten unconscious, and Authors Tennessee Williams and Dotson Rader, who were mugged. Two of those arrested were sons of prominent local families...
...that subsequent performers run the risk of coming off like contestants in a charade contest. Dylan, the Stones, the Beatles, the Who all carry the weight of tradition with ease. But Elton John, performing in concert, sounds as if he's singing in a record-your-voice booth; Janis Joplin, desperate to please, sings blues with the synthetic soul of a Broadway belter; Linda Ronstadt's coy version of a great Jagger-Richards tune might more appropriately be retitled Fumbling Dice. Thoughts of decadence and decline occur; Donna Summer appears. But then Jimmy Cliff shows up, singing...
...Wordsworth's, he throws over the photographed thing "a certain coloring of imagination." The hot oranges, yellow and pinks of pillows filling a couch struck by sunlight, the sharp whiteness of one boat on darkened water, the canteloupe-colored beach, and the green tinge of flourescence illuminating a phone booth at dusk all possess a degree of heightened intensity, a kind of dramatic gorgeousness, which one feels was imposed on, rather than retained from, the actual scene...
...that can virtually take you any place in any time." The big steel dumbbell is a German-made Zeiss planetarium projector, 12 ft. high weighing 5,500 lbs., with 27,000 parts. Images are beamed up from the two large spheres at either end of the projector. Its control booth, situated at the edge of the auditorium, looks like the cockpit of a spaceship. A three-panel console has 150 buttons and 70 knobs. To bring out a star, the operator pushes two black buttons simultaneously and turns a rheostat marked STAR...