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...raining steadily as you emerge from your entryway door, don't forget Big Red in the featured race at Soldiers Field (Post Time, 1:30), Big Red, you see, is a mudder. His specialty is to get down and dirty and go ankle deep and head to head and all of that other running-in-the-rain rigmarole...
...maybe, for the plungers who put their money on Cañonero II, which paid $12.80 at O.T.B. as opposed to $8.80 at the track. But for Samuels and O.T.B., the first six weeks of operation have been something less than a lark. Like a mudder on macadam, O.T.B. has been tentatively clomping along to cries of "Foul" from racing commissions, labor unions, track owners and horse breeders. Nevertheless, O.T.B. has so far proved a winner with the group that counts most: the bettors. At Grand Central Station last week, one of nine off-track betting sites in the city...
...mudder sleeps in pay toilets," grouses a guttural voice. The place could be nowhere but Manhattan, where a bunch of grass-puffing adult dropouts 'ive in communal squalor. But when a toucan with an exotic virus wings in he window, everyone suddenly breaks out in smiles...
...school, prefers instead a scattergun attack of drums, gongs, cowbells, wood blocks, maracas, xylophones, glockenspiels and tubas. All are brought into play in Short Symphony, a 14-minute piece subtitled "Testimony to a Big City." It bristles with jazzy splashes, but too often falls off the pace like a mudder on a fast track. It is restless, aggressive, often directionless music, a personal statement of what Bazelon calls his "violent, silent world inside." Just how he arrived at his present state of agitation is a case study of the tribulations faced by most young composers nowadays...
Group I. Two of the three epics in this classification mercifully died on the road during the fall, but others have continued in the face of the TI death warrant, including The Queen and the Rebels, by another mudder among esteemed playwrights, Italian Ugo Betti, who flopped in an off-Broadway production. None of Queen's other participants has a recent Broadway past except for two-time losing Co-Producer Martin Cohen...