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KRESGE AUDITORIUM (MIT). MIT schola Cantorum. Monteverdi: Messa a 4 Voca da Cappella; Lasso: Prophetiae Sybyllarum. Tickets: $2. Sunday, December...
...Chou was also concerned about the massing of Soviet military might on China's northern border, but added: "We Chinese are not afraid of atom bombs. We are prepared. The great majority of our big and medium cities now have underground tunnels." Chou claimed the Russians "want to lasso us" into a test-ban conference of nuclear powers only, while China hopes for a meeting of "all the countries of the world" for "complete prohibition" of nuclear weapons...
...their supporters and some of the men and women who had sat in judgment of them gathered for a victory celebration. At the party, Juror Frederick Hills expressed his dismay at the conspiracy statutes frequently invoked to prosecute dissenters and radicals. Said Hills: "It's disgusting-a large lasso to bring in people for so many things." Five of the defendants remained in jail because other charges were pending against them, but the others-with the exception of eight-months-pregnant Afeni Shakur, who was out on bail-were released. Some had been held from time to time...
Besides the professional, gang-style rustlers, amateur poachers pose a problem. They lasso and shoot or knife one or two steers at a time and often butcher them on the spot. Some of the meat goes into their freezers for future backyard barbecues. The rest is bootlegged to retailers. Because this beef is uninspected and carries no "prime" or "choice" stamps, it is usually ground up and sold as hamburger. Most sheriffs lack the manpower to check the rustlers. Instead, ranchers send gun-toting cowboys on range patrols in trucks and even light planes. The Florida Cattlemen's Association...
...most gimmick-prone groups in all rock. The Who's favorite pre-Tommy stunt was to smash their guitars, loudspeakers and drums at the end of every set. At the Met, save for their own vaudeville antics onstage (Singer Roger Daltrey twirling his mike like a lasso, Peter Townshend playing his guitar with showy windmills of his right arm), there was no drama, no staging, no characterization. So little, in fact, that though The Who played only two-thirds of the complete work at the Met, no one, not even the critics, seemed to notice...