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...Claes Oldenburg's 18-ft.-high red steel Geometric Mouse, Scale X looks convincing on its beach, and why Alexander Liberman's Argo is the most successful combination of work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark di Suvero and Clement Meadmore, is one of the three...
...city for better protection of the grubby Great White Way. It was claimed that actors could not step outside the greenroom without getting goosed or mugged. Today, says A Little Night Music's Hermione Gingold, "There are far less evil-looking people around." Two days later, an uptown precinct tried to persuade the visiting Moiseyev troupe of folk dancers that Central Park was safe. Not a bicycle thief was in sight when Patrolman Murray Trelford and eight of his colleagues challenged the 30 Russians to a Frisbee game on the Great Lawn. Then they all linked arms...
Seale cited Oakland Panthers' providing free food, free health clinics, and escort services for old people as programs that helped account for his 40,000 votes in the Oakland election. He predicted Pantherbacked candidates would win an election next year, with the help of better precinct organization...
...minute rate but are given a choice between standing trial with a jail term possible and going to a detoxification center. This program has eliminated about 75% of alcoholic recidivism. No longer are suspects held as long as three days for investigation; each afternoon the police must give a precinct-by-precinct report on the disposition of suspects. Arraignments now usually come within 24 hours, a trial date is set within five or six days, and trial begins in 60 to 90 days on the average. Jail population has -sunk well below 1,000. Court is held 365 days...
...right.On public platforms, the acknowledged maestro of the fast quip and the telling statistic repeated tired jokes and muffed his facts and figures. "He looked and behaved more like an old actor making positively his last appearance than Moses leading us back to the promised land," said a Labor precinct worker...