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...skydiver plummetted. It seemed that his parachute opened a little early, and he drifted over the field. He seemed to be whirling curiously around on his straps, and he landed over a clump of trees behind the stage. Later, three skydivers jumped amidst the lightning with three red flares held in their hands. The next day, the newspapers reported one of the skydivers had been killed, burned to a crisp by his flare before he hit the ground. The only one who seemed out of control, like a dead weight, was the first diver. But by the time...
...each team concentrating on a particularly active gang and trying to get close enough to the gang's leaders to sense when real trouble is brewing. "We turn the block every half-hour," explained one Gang Control officer, but "it only takes a few seconds to start a flare-up." The city has made one attempt to rid the gangs of their guns by offering a moratorium on weapons' arrests-but the attempt failed dismally. The teen-agers simply did not believe the offer was honest. "As soon as you walk in the door," said one leader, "they...
...tell it, all the real Activism has gone out of Harvard Square. Four years ago the Square was practically mad with New Left Happening: its street corners busy with politicos pamphleteering, its restaurants busy with politicos planning, its street life rich with political street theater. Sporadically, its Action would flare up in virtually all forms of street fighting, in everything from noisy portest to out and out rioting. Nobody is really sure where that old Activism disappeared to, and nobody really wants to believe that it died somewhere. You still heat talk about the Revolution. But the air just...
...most ominous flare-up occurred in southeast Lebanon, when some 1,000 fedayeen crossed over the border from Syria. The troops belong to a fighting unit known as the Yarmuk Brigade, which has the backing of the Syrian government. But after brief skirmishes with Lebanese soldiers, the Palestinian invaders withdrew. Their sortie seemed to have been a largely symbolic demonstration of support for their embattled brothers in Beirut...
...color field lightens and meets a series of linear strokes of color that bound and direct it. On the right the general tone of the painting grows green; there the bordering strokes are green on white. On the left, a plunging red streak ignites the entire canvas like a flare thrown across the night. (I describe the painting in such detail because it is impossible to convey any good idea of the painting in black and white reproduction -- that is the cost of successfully merging color and form...