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...Netherlands as well as work by American animators and the National Film Board of Canada. The Festival includes films displaying a number of different animation techniques, from the computer animations of Pixar and Apple Computer to the claymation techniques of Will ("The California Raisins") Vinton. As usual, Marv Newland's classic Bambi Meets Godzilla returns along with this year's Festival: This year also highlights the work of Max Fleischer, one of the pioneers of the animation form...
...Olympic letdown was obvious from the field of competitors who gathered in Eugene. Entry forms were mailed to 935 qualified athletes. Only 700 showed up to participate. The same number competed in '76, when only 800 athletes were invited. Said Meet Director Bob Newland: "There were 47 men sprinters who were eligible to compete, but only 27 showed up. In '76 we had more than 50. I'm certain that if we'd been going to the Olympics, everyone would have come to take a shot at making the team...
Still, some of those who went put on performances that will long be part of track and field lore. "You've got to remember, these are great athletes," Newland said. "They have their pride." That pride produced ten new Trials records during the first five days of competition, precisely the number of records set during the same period of the 1976 Trials. If no one was falling down to kiss the track after finishing third-as Mike Shine, the 400-meter hurdles silver medalist in 1976, had done when he qualified for the team that year-there were moments...
...just about the case (see below). High on a ramp, the strings were lined up facing Assistant Conductor David Gilbert in the right rear corner of the stage. He was only one of four conductors at work. At times, James Chambers led the brass and some percussion, Larry Newland the clarinets, flutes and a vibraphone. When all hell broke loose-during an evocation of the Apocalypse-Supreme Maestro Pierre Boulez could be seen beating with the polyrhythmic fury of a sinner trying to drive off an army of snakes...
...shocked if it wasn't mixed boys and girls here Most people who have been through college take these things in stride." Indeed they do-or appear to-and they have given Fire Island a unique place in the sun. "This island just floats on weekends," muses Mark Newland, a senior at George Washington University. "It goes out to sea Friday night and doesn't come back until Sunday...