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...American Graffiti, 7:15, 9:15, ends today...
...take offense at the comparison your reporter made of Yuba City to something "right out of American Graffiti" [June 7]. I have lived in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, Dallas, Cheyenne and many more places. Without putting those places down, because each has something to offer, I believe Yuba City has the most to offer...
Yuba City is right out of American Graffiti, an unattractive town of gas stations, seedy bars and hamburger joints, supported by agriculture and nearby Beale Air Force Base. It has known tragedy before. On Christmas Eve in 1955, the Feather River broke through the levee and drowned 40 people. In 1971 authorities discovered the bodies of 25 itinerant farm workers in shallow graves; eventually, Labor Contractor Juan Corona was convicted of the murders. Twenty-two of the victims now lie in Sutter Cemetery, near where the teenagers were laid to rest last week...
...color is a chameleon? Every man's Brecht turns out to be his own. The production of Threepenny Opera at Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater, shaped with satanic brilliance by Director Richard Foreman, is abrasive, stylized and sinister. Brecht's message -sprayed on the stage like graffiti on a subway train-is that the underworld of rapacious thieves, fawning beggars and mercenary prostitutes is an exact mirror image of property-minded, shark-toothed bourgeois society...
...date for all lines is now 1982. At last Saturday's opening, thousands of Washingtonians waited up to two hours to ride the trains (left). One young New Yorker, Paula Allen, liked the Metro better than her own subway: "It's cleaner, nicer. There's no graffiti...