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...kind of Oliver Twist-flavored Hollywood punk, Piper (George Olden) does not like the Bleeding purportedly Catholic orphanage run by the sadistic Sister Serena (Ann De Salvo). Twentieth-century America being the breadbasket of the world and all, Piper has enough food--so much so that he uses the mashed potatoes as an ashtray-but lacks the respect accorded even laboratory test animals...
...Volkswagen, and vs. everyone else." Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell puts it differently but the message is the same: "It's a global game now. At the end of the day we all have to be competitive. If anyone gets out of line, you have to pay the piper...
...Olympic version of mission control is a draped cubicle deep in Piper Technical Center, a city-owned warehouse and heliport in downtown Los Angeles. Once the Games begin, representatives of all the law-enforcement agencies involved will staff the Pentagon-designed nerve center round the clock. Five large screens will project an array of security information, like the size of a traffic jam or the location of a hostage incident. Says Commander William Rathburn of the Los Angeles police department (L.A.P.D.), who will oversee the operation: " A civilian security coordination effort of this magnitude has never before been undertaken...
...ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000 feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee Archer...
...Artistic Director Adrian Hall. The result is a some times unwieldy mélange of docudrama, sociological argument, fragmented monologues and musical interludes. This stylization moves the play closer to Brechtian irony than to Greek tragedy. Jones, played with grim conviction by Richard Kneeland, is not a satanic Pied Piper but a drug-addicted preacher with delusions of grandeur. His followers are not pathetic flotsam but all too recognizable products of the '60s: a rebellious flower child, a medical student avoiding the Army, a socially concerned lawyer. "We were 913 individuals," one proclaims to the audience...