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...last year, a series of Nick Zedd shorts were shown on a portable screen in the now defunct Studio 54 on Queensbury Street in the Fenway. The audience lounged on the floor, passing around beer from a Bud suitcase to friends and strangers alike, while Lydia Lunch spouted profanities overhead...

Author: By Joseph D. Penachio, | Title: Advancing the Rear | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...extinguish cigarettes before putting on an oxygen mask. For anyone anxious to struggle out of a seat and stand in the aisles for a half-hour while the landing crew tries to open the doors, the attendants suggest waiting until the plane has landed before retrieving luggage from the overhead bins...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Plane Truth | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

Engle stormed to a 6-1 win in the first set, breaking Amin Khoury's service three times. In the second set, Engle placed beautiful overhead lobs and perfect drop volleys to jump out to a 5-0 advantage...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netsters Trip Bruins | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

...sits at curbside in Peoria, a black bomb emitting oily blue smoke. The bus shudders intermittently as crew members wake and drop down out of their bunks. It shudders three times for Joe Burns, prop master: when he sits up and bangs his forehead on the bottom of the overhead bunk, when he flops back again on his pillow and, finally, when he throws aside the packing blanket and rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: Rolling Toward Peoria | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...fill two 48-ft. truck trailers, and some theaters aren't big enough to accommodate the whole show. Some theaters aren't fit to accommodate any show. Burns is still muttering about one theater where the local crew chief, a plumber, counterbalanced 800-lb. light pipes and pieces of overhead scenery not with the customary lead weights or even sandbags but with old toilets and radiators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: Rolling Toward Peoria | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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