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...Yuba City last week as the 15,000 citizens mourned their dead. A week earlier a bus bearing 53 members of the local high school choir and Chaperon Christina Estabrook had ripped through 72 feet of guardrail as it turned onto an exit ramp in Martinez, about 80 miles from Yuba City. The bus plunged 21 1/2 feet to the ground. It landed on its top, wheels still spinning and roof crushed down to the seats...
Collected on the third floor, up the ramp, is the "best" student work done under the aegis of VES. Indubitably, there is a lot of talent here, though most of it remains potential and little of its expression rests self-confident and complete. Some of the most exciting pieces strike you immediately; Carter Brandon and Ross Miller's sculpture, dripping wine, arrests the eye, ear, nose. One of three beautifully engineered sculptures, the work balances stretched steel cable, rods, and shimmering planes. Wine slides and spatters down its contours. Further on, Anne Taintor's silkscreen parrot quilt hangs in downy...
...opening and when the management begged them, they said nothing doing. No one was moving and the thousands of privileged fans who had waited two years to see the redecorated ballpark weren't getting to their seats. From high above, a thirteen year old boy looked down from a ramp. Obviously he had connections, for he had gotten in early, and was waving his arms at the crowd like a dauphin who thought that the storming of the Bastille was a celebration of his coming coronation. He yelled and took snapshots...
...example, instead of having the major access to the development be an entry ramp to the Mass Pike, why not cooperate with the MBTA to expand bus or trolley service to the area and lay out the buildings for easy ommunication with the bus stops...
...show is something new, and slightly progressive. Very much "the thing", and treated as such. She is given a hand by the producers and the audience and "welcomed to Harvard." Certainly Haskell had never been to this Harvard when she was an undergraduate. A turn and she descends the ramp as the clapping becomes restive. The the music comes up, the curtain rises on the tots and tinsel onstage, as the shimmering house adjusts its trappings of tails and trains, waiting to be amused...