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Arias and Arabesques (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A double-threat special featuring Composer Douglas (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Moore's opera Gallantry-starring Martha Wright, Laurel Hurley, Charles Anthony and Ronald Holgate-and a ballet, Parallels, based on a composition by Wallingford Riegger and choreographed by John Butler. Jan Peerce is the master of ceremonies...
...Buck Well Spent. Once a buck is bagged, many a hunter makes a beeline for Hurley, Wis. (pop. 2,763), affectionately known as the "Tijuana of the North." Traditionally, a triumphal entry into Hurley can only be achieved with a gutted buck on one's fender. To take care of this technicality, many trophyless hunters buy a bootleg buck for $40 or $50 from a local deerslayer, ride into town without having fired a shot. Hurley's six-block Silver Street is jammed with 56 bars, aswarm with dough-eyed girls...
...Hurley's raffish oases have names like the 4 Ever Amber Tap, Nora's Gold Nugget, Augie's Rainbow, Lovely Girls, and Joan's French Casino. The loudest and most profane action is at Joan's, a small, chairless place cheered chiefly by the muted glow of the pinball machines. Joan, a 32-year-old blonde with a foul mouth and matching disposition, is the joint's leading (and only) attraction. Alternately kissing and cussing visiting huntsmen, Joan sets drink prices by a whimsical sliding scale based on how much the traffic will bear...
Something to Do. Everyone in Hurley expects an occasional raid by agents of the Wisconsin beverage and cigarette tax division. For staying open after hours a saloon owner coughs up $500, can reopen next morning; for soliciting too obviously, a B-girl may be fined $200. While sin is rampant in Hurley, and the town's three churches are fighting a losing battle to save its wild and woolly soul, the community is not totally without law and order. An estimated $22,400 enters municipal coffers from saloon licenses, and Mayor Sam Giovanni is torn between righteousness and revenue...
...deer season lasts for eight days; in the first four, Wisconsin counted four hunters dead of gunshot wounds, six of heart attacks. At season's end, the hunters and their red shirts disappear abruptly from Hurley's streets, vanishing southward into workaday anonymity. The girls drift away, and Hurley reverts to its somnolent tween-season existence as an iron-mining town...