Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auditorium floor, which was empty of seats, like a high school gym rigged up for a dance, and staked out standing room in front of the stage. Five hours to go. Promoter Bill Graham got a volleyball * game started. In the balcony the tapers set up their equipment (the Dead, unlike other rock groups, permit amateurs to record their shows, with the understanding that tapes may be traded but not sold). People sucked at funny cigarettes and listened with cheerful toleration to the opening acts...
...Dead came on at 10:15, after half an hour of anticipatory hooting from the Dead Heads. As always, stage center was covered by two Oriental rugs, strewn with roses thrown by the crowd. Weir and Bass Player Lesh stood to the left, Garcia and Keyboardist Mydland to the right, the two drummers and a percussion rig vast enough to drive a spaceship elevated to the rear. Lights swirled, and the bandsmen swung into the saddle and began their long ride...
...four hours they played clear, strong rock, veering now and then toward folk, and once, surprisingly, toward the kind of electronic music that bright young conservatory professors are putting together with computers and tapes. To an outsider it was fine and enjoyable; to the Dead Heads it was a rare peak of brilliance. Most of the audience knew that the wife and baby of Veteran Roadie Steve Parish had been killed two days before in an auto accident, and they assumed that the performance was a special effort, a memorial. But the Dead are always private; no announcement was made...
...mistake," warned Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne A. Motley last week in testimony before a House foreign affairs subcommittee. Nicaragua, he argued, would then "have no reason to compromise." Maybe so, Massachusetts Democrat Gerry Studds told Motley, but "whether you like it or not . . . support for the rebels is dead...
...such changes should be made. The Kremlin's obsession with continuity is confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise when it is an autocratic, dictatorial, almost monarchical system? The only difference is there is no biological heir...