Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis schools are eliminating 411 nonteaching jobs (guards, clerks, custodians, nurses) from their budget as well as cutting out $200,000 earmarked for athletics teams. Local businessmen have already pledged $175,000 to make up the difference. In San Francisco, Rock Promoter Bill Graham staged a concert that raised enough money to save the athletics programs for this year (TIME, March 17); their fate next year is still up in the air. But the school system will still have to fire 100 teachers. "You have to cut back somewhere," says Assistant Superintendent Fred Kennedy, "and the fact remains that...
Still, exciting and absorbing as his records are, they do not give one a full feeling for his talents. That comes only in live performance. These extravagant concert appearances-or perhaps more properly, these extragagant appearances at concerts have given him his notoriety among those who pay more attention to rock scenes than to rock sounds...
Lenny Bruce in Concert, 4, 7, 10 p.m.: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20, through Saturday; And Now For Something Completely Different, 4, 7:25, 10:55, Bedazzied, 5:35, 9:05. Sunday through Tuesday...
...time I arrived, Great Britain's Mark Phillips had already ridden. I was crushed. It was like going to a rock concert late and finding out the band had opened with one of the two songs you knew and liked. Princess Anne was to ride in another hour, though, so all was not lost...
...gathered together near a wooden door, it suddenly opened and a woman in her 60s emerged. "Would you mind not leaning against the door?" she snapped. "You're blocking our way to the Alamo." Jagger & Co. stepped aside and regrouped for their photo, then headed for their next concert in Kansas City. "I don't know what it is or where it is," joked Jagger of the Alamo later, "but we'll never play it again...