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...Repelled by what they consider to be the sterile fantasy land of conventional playhouses, the guerrilla troupes prefer the realism of open-air settings for dramatizing their message to children, students, workers and activists. Naturally, the values of the Broadway stage are anathema to them. "You cannot respond to junk like Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller," insists Luis Valdez, an alumnus of the Mime Troupe and founder of El Teatro Campesino. "Art is communication. The more artful you are, the more straight-telling you are." This is roughly the esthetic theory of the poster or the comic strip, and guerrilla...
...have no goal, we have no idea of where American communications will be in 20 years." One commissioner, Robert Bartley, openly argues for the FCC's abolition and the division of its functions among three new agencies. "Let's burn down the old house with all its junk," says Bartley. "Let's start over again...
...this struggle that Vonnegut most affirms. Even at the farthest reaches of his time-machine trip, his characters rebel and fight to salvage something human from the automated junk heap of tomorrow. As Helmholtz the music teacher says to Jim Donnini the delinquent, in an effort to explain how one might bring beauty into the world: "Love yourself and make your instrument sing about it." Though Vonnegut's performance is occasionally a little slick or a little sloppy, he does succeed in making his literary instrument sing...
Thin-Slcinned SSTs. Happily, the debris has caused scant damage so far. Like meteors, space junk usually burns up in the atmosphere. Even the few pieces that manage to survive have landed harmlessly enough. No planes have been hit, although pilots have sighted 26 descending satellites...
First-Class Third Class. Murray and Hinshaw decided that they could only do better. Last winter, on an investment of $2,000,000, they formed the Independent Postal System of America. Right now their corporation handles only third-class "junk" mail (which accounts for 27% of all mail), mainly in Oklahoma, with outlets in Tulsa, Ardmore and Oklahoma City, plus one in Dallas. Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody...