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...Martha Graham company. Arlo emerged from his father's shadow with his debut of Alice's Restaurant Massacre at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Although he would take a number of tacks in the years to follow, Arlo defined his essential sensibility with this loquacious, sardonic, mock-shaggy dog approach to song writing. In 1969 the album Alice's Restaurant was made into a movie in which Guthrie starred as himself. In the 27 years since, he has released album after album, moonlighted on a short lived TV series, started his own record company, written literature for children, raised...

Author: By Eric D. Bennett, | Title: Arlo Guthrie Still With It | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...agency's clandestine service. Located on 9,000 acres of barbed-wire-encircled woods outside Williamsburg, Virginia, the Farm looks like a community college, with brick buildings, dorms, a cafeteria and a gym laid out on a bucolic campus. But it also has such uncollegiate features as a mock prison where trainees get to experience solitary confinement, a pistol range where they learn to use firearms, and a private airstrip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA'S YEAR-ROUND CAMP FOR SPIES | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Michaelson says she once did a mock interview with an aspiring med school student and asked him the stock question: What field of medicine do you want to go into...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Will Employers Pop the Resume Balloon? | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

...seems that some people (reluctantly) voted absentee, that some people (reluctantly) registered in Massachusetts and that some people (reluctantly) aren't voting at all. I haven't run into all that many passionate people, certainly not anywhere near as passionate as my eighth grade class was about out mock polling setup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building That Bridge | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...picture-book Chautauqua, New York, for each of three evenings before the debate, Clinton held a mock session with smooth-talking former Senator George Mitchell, who played Dole. The main advice to Clinton: Don't let Dole drag you off the presidential pedestal, stay on your sunny message and don't bite your lip. Dole rehearsed in the first-floor ballroom of his condominium building, where the campaign set up a stage bathed in TV lights. Aides sat at a table to the side, using flashlights to signal when time was up. Playing Clinton was former actor and good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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