Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state holds the prisoners responsible for everything that happened. Not one officer was indicted," Champen said. Although the National Lawyers Guild has volunteered to defend the Attica prisoners, Champen called for donations to cover over $500,000 in defense costs. "The authorities perform lobotomies on prisoners and call it behavioral modification. Prisoners have no rights," Champen said...
This is the core of Quadrophenia--punk arrogance, hostility, basic lower class frustration. Which is why these songs perform so well in concert. Because their autobiographical nature, really a secondary feature of the album, becomes dominant. The two-thirds of the opera that are performed is a strong two-thirds, even though two of the four themes are eliminated. Townshend programmed some sound effects for the stage and added two small banks of PA amps to the back of the hall, a real stroke of genius, because filling Boston Garden with sound is no picnic. They filled...
...Collegium Musicum, directed by F. John Adams, lecturer on music, will perform the Mozart Requiem in memory of Ethel Higonnet at 8 p.m., December 16, in Memorial Church...
...prepared with fresh flowers. They file up the road to the church, singing, four of them bearing the little coffin on a crude wooden frame. Inside, Don Efren plays a twangy banjo and Senora Gudelia and Senora Rosa sing an endless song in nasal harmony while two cousins perform a funereal ritual before the coffin. The other children play for their mothers' attention, or titter, or hold back their tears...
...Times really doesn't have to perform so poorly. Among its contributing editors are some of the best and most progressive journalists in this country: Marshall Frady, J. Anthony Lukas '55, Joe McGinniss, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman. In addition, the magazine lists some 66 correspondents scattered around the country--most of them apparently younger journalists in places like Richmond, Va. and Bozeman, Mont., many of them working for small, independent local weeklies. If its masthead were any indication, New Times would be covering a variety of interesting and important local stories with sensitive and informed understanding...