Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he made his reputation as a platform personality. Elvis Presley hasn't appeared before a live audience in nearly a decade. Instead, he's been cutting records and cranking out as many as three movies a year at an average of $1,000,000 each. Now the arithmetic has changed, and Elvis will be turning them on live in the future. "It's more profitable than movies," says a spokesman, explaining that $100,000 per concert is not out of line for a man of Elvis' talents these days. Thus a concert a week...
...entry hall, patrons are politely requested to remove their shoes. They are escorted up a ramp into the cavernous main studio, to confront a brain-boggling scene. Dimly distinguishable in the half-light, two dozen or more toga-clad figures are arranged in random fashion around 14 raised platforms, lushly carpeted and joined together by a narrow walkway. Ghostly music emanates from unseen speakers; colored lights flicker over the ceiling and walls. New arrivals are led to platforms, helped into their own translucent togas and encouraged to doff as many of their clothes as they wish. Stereo headphones are fitted...
Among other complaints which the group wants to raise are parietals, physical training, and compulsory expository writing for freshmen and sexual segregation of the Freshman Union. Imposition of these requirements by the administration, they state in their platform, "cannot be justified without student approval...
...group's platform criticizes the HUC for having failed "to command power or bring about meaningful change." The Council "needs an initiative for power," the platform states, which the freshman class is in the "unique position to provide...
Lloyd H. Marlowe, 25, a research fellow in psychology at Harvard, was killed Saturday afternoon when he fell from the platform at the Harvard Square MBTA station under the wheels of an approaching train...