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Prince Albert meets The Outsider. A Southern-style barn-burner, or at least that's what Gary Trudeau would have us believe...
...truth, though, sculpting in glass is exacting, sensitive work. By 6 a.m. Stankard is in his studio, twirling thin rods of colored glass over the gas- oxygen burner, similar to a large welding torch. The centuries-old process is lampworking, so named because the glass was once worked over an oil lamp. "Lampworking was trivialized as a street craft and dismissed as an art form," says Stankard. "I think I've brought it far enough along that in a hundred years people will say, 'Holy smoke, how did he do that?' " As if to puncture such pretensions, he grins...
...seismic clash between cocky, contentious Joe Clark of Eastside High and the Paterson, N. J., school board has catapulted a back- burner conversation among academics about the quality of urban schools into front- page and prime- time news. President Reagan says Clark has the right stuff. Most educators, however, believe the bat- toting principal swings too hard. See EDUCATION...
...settled on After Burner, one of the many fighter-plane games of the Top Gun type. The game cost a dollar. I said to myself, "Oh, well, if it's the only game I'm playing, I might as well...
...other than Eisert has openly announced intentions to run. Political issues have been placed on the council's back burner. Compared to last year's mid-year elections, the upcoming race is "very tame," Smith says. And current chair Richard S. Eisert '88 says he would "be surprised" if more than one person opposed him in the election on Monday night...