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...United States cringe at anything labelled 'nuclear' or 'radioactive.' "When you mention radioactivity," explains Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, "everybody goes into orbit." As City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's election eve hysteria in Cambridge indicates, waste disposal is a political hot potato. "Nuclear hysteria," volunteers Dr. Ralph R. DiSibio, Nevada director of human resources, "is spreading...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

Before the Maine farmers could say "one potato, two potato," they trailed by another point. Sweeper Peter Sergienko booted a long pass to Keller-Sarmiento who threaded between two fullbacks, drew Brown toward him and slammed the ball into the far side...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Cruise to Fifth Straight, 4-0 | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

Cool as a Baked Potato...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Social Analysis 10 Tops 1000; Largest Harvard Class Ever | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...production savors the visual opportunities of Das Rheingold, wringing it of every bit of spectacle--including towering potato-sack giants. Die Walkure, the best of the four adaptations, flows well musically; Sellars cuts out nearly the entire second act. Though that act, with a 25-minute monologue from Wotan, is the ideological lynchpin of the whole cycle, it rightly is the first to go in a conception of the Ring as entertainment. Walkure also benefits from the absence of Sellars' sometimes-intrusive narration. The presentation races through Siegfried, barely pausing for Siegfried to slaughter a garbage-bag Fafner, and into...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wringing Pleasure From Wagner | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

...their feet an instrument case usually lies open. Listeners offer what they can-a few coins, flowers, a can of beer, a potato. A drunk once astonished a Boston musician by removing his trousers and donating them. Best of all are the "silent offerings" (noiseless folding green). The average take is $5 to $10 an hour, but talent and a good location can raise that to $30 or $40, and occasionally more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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