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...consistent tendency to trap smoke, exposed rafters, and uncomfortable chairs. It also has more seats than most promoters can handle. Which is why there is an alert group standing by the press gate on Monday evening. Because on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the Rolling Stones will fill the cavern with people, mostly young...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: 'You Guys Aren't Exactly Muscle Beach' | 7/28/1972 | See Source »

Martha and the Vandellas said, "There'll be music everywhere" in "Dancing in the Street." And this summer there will be music everywhere, from the playgrounds in the North End, to Boston Common, and from the intimacy of the small jazz club to the cavern of Boston Garden...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Do Ya Like Good Music? | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...most part the drift into flamboyance is forgivable. In one scene in particular--Macbeth's second meeting with the witches--the visual overstatement undoubtedly enhances the text. Polanski fills a dank, green-smoked cavern with a bevy of the oldest, ugliest, cacklingest witches imaginable, and the grotesquerie, the outlandishness, is just in line with Shakespearean exuberance...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Polanski's Macbeth | 2/26/1972 | See Source »

...contracts. Thus the Government has been forced to continue buying helium in the same quantities as were needed when it was a monopoly seller, though it has fewer customers to sell it to. Result: it has acquired a massive oversupply of the gas. The stockpile rests in a huge cavern twelve miles northwest of Amarillo, Texas. So far, 28.5 billion cubic feet of helium have been pumped into the natural storage area, and more goes in daily. In all, the Government spends about $48 million annually to buy the gas. Says John F. O'Leary, former Bureau of Mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL RESOURCES: The Great Balloondoggle | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

MOST of the people attracted to Process activities are young. They congregate six nights a week in the "Cavern" coffee-house, listening to rock records as Process members move quietly among the groups seated on the floor. On Friday nights there are special activities: the "telepathy developing circle," a "midnight meditation," and the "Process-scene," a dramatization of what the Process is about...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Preparing For the Fiery End: Process | 4/27/1971 | See Source »

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