Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game to be even slightly humiliated by all this nonsense. They meet somewhere in the middle of mediocrity to form their little ensemble. It is a measure of just how careless the raptures of cynicism are that Avildsen tries to pass off an ancient Newark concert hall as Lincoln Center, which it in no way resembles. Of course, if you attempt to foist off a romance as silly as this one, developing it in a totally banal fashion, then you must believe that the public will accept almost anything. Given Rocky's record, this is an understandable belief...
...season of celebration at Lincoln Center: not the opera this time or the ballet or symphony, but chamber music. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the smallest member of the musical circle, is observing its tenth anniversary in the grand manner of the Met. There was the four-tiered monument of a cake that was wheeled onstage at Alice Tully Hall during the first concert (with a slice for everyone in the audience afterward). An imposing, six-foot-long version was the focus of the society's "street fair" birthday evening on the New York State Theater Promenade. Musical...
...sawing away in rusty black suits. But over the past decade, as the performing arts boomed in the U.S., people discovered the intimate beauty of chamber music, and it burgeoned in popularity. On Dec. 10, it will receive the official blessing of national television, when Live from Lincoln Center (PBS) airs its first Chamber Music Society performance...
...according to the account given by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Orloff, Newton was riding along in a new Lincoln Continental, when he was accosted by a group of prostitutes. One of the prostitutes called out something like "Hey, baby!" Newton jumped out of the car, Orloff says, and began arguing with one of them, Kathleen Smith, 17. The others ran. When they heard a shot fired, they turned back and saw Smith lying on the ground, shot in the head. The girl lingered in a coma for 96 days before she died...
...starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...