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...military government of President Galtieri, 55, showed no more signs of bending than the British. On May 25, Galtieri and his fellow junta members, Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya, 55, and Brigadier General Lami Dozo, 53, took part in a Mass and Te Deum in Buenos Aires' Metropolitan Cathedral that celebrated the 172nd anniversary of Argentina's equivalent of the Declaration of Independence. Said Galtieri afterward: "At this time of patriotism, the sons of our land from the army, navy and air force will be singing the national anthem, even in their trenches." Galtieri publicly rebuffed a conciliatory letter from President...
Even when a sound system is good, it destroys the intimacy between actors and audience, which is, after all, the essence of theater. Cyril Harris, an acoustical consultant for the Metropolitan Opera House, Avery Fisher Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center, maintains that despite what many producers claim, audiences really prefer their sound straight and unaided. "If you give audiences a choice between a large amplified house and a smaller unamplified house, they'll take the latter every time," he says. "People know that what they are hearing in a large house isn't realistic. An amplified...
...similar raids were conducted last week as a special strike force of 400 INS investigators and Border Patrol officers fanned out to search for undocumented workers in a $500,000 operation dubbed Project Jobs. In five days, more than 300 raids netted nearly 5,400 such workers in nine metropolitan areas.* The targets were supposed to be businesses paying considerably more than the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour, not the usual farms and restaurants. "We felt it would be good to center on these areas where we think the higher-paying jobs are held by illegal aliens," explained...
...York as Fun City died with the Lindsay administration? No such thing. In A Little Sex, Manhattan is still where a coupla crazy kids can get their Wasp jollies while jogging through Central Park, skateboarding past the Chrysler Building and making love in an apartment the size of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian wing. He (Tim Matheson) is a young Mad Ave. careerist. She (Kate Capshaw, whose resemblance to both Julie Christie and Diane Keaton makes her odds-on favorite as Warren Beatty's next costar) teaches at a girls' private school. They get married...
About 200 officers from BU. Boston, Brookline and the Metropolitan District Commission responded to a Boston police officer's call for support, and arrested 50 students...