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...three-hour program of music and technological curiosities, which included a laser show, a 600-foot inflatable rainbow, floating platforms full of musicians and a life-size John Harvard marionette, took place as scheduled, but many observers said the marvelsfailed to impress...
Gusty winds prevented organizers from puttingup all of the helium-inflated silver rainbow, andBen Waldman '89 said of the remaining pieces,"They look just like the golden arches. I wonderhow much McDonald's paid them to put them...
...Stanley Diamond, chairman of the California English Campaign. Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people but not adopt different languages...
Jackson is seeking to make his "rainbow coalition" less monochromatic. His technique is to back the demands of almost every discontented group in society: feminists, distressed farmers, striking meat packers and TWA flight attendants, and laid-off oil-field workers. Says one party strategist: "His is an effort to take every political grievance that ever existed and make a political movement." He has had some early success: though organized labor primarily regards him with deep suspicion as a potential party-splitting force, he has been invited to give the keynote speech Monday at the convention of the American Federation...
...week folk singers Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt '72 and Tom Rush '63 will perform an outdoor concert in Harvard Yard. And at the very start of the ceremonies, there will be a "floating birthday party" on the banks of the Charles River, complete with a 600-foot inflatable rainbow straddling the banks of the river...