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...Frederic Remington or Charles M. Russell, the great turn-of-the-century cowboy artist. Bill Nebeker's small bronze, Givin' the Boys a Show, is a rousing halloo for Remington and the past, a bucking horse with all four legs stiff and off the ground, and a rider waving his hat high. Lovell's Cooling the Big 50 is a powerful charcoal drawing showing a plainsman pouring water on the barrel of his rifle, which he has been firing for some time at an unseen target (buffaloes? attacking Indians...
...portent of battles to be fought in the coming years, the Senate voted 42 to 38 to add an antibusing measure to a $9.8 billion appropriation bill for the Justice Department and other agencies. Already passed by the House, the rider would prevent the Justice Department from asking federal judges to use busing as one means of achieving a better racial balance in public schools. The coalition backing the antibusing move was led by Helms. Asked he: "How long are we going to allow a federal bureaucracy in the Justice Department to torment the little children of America...
Passage of the measure puts Carter in a quandary: he will either have to veto a money bill that is badly needed or accept the rider that turns back the clock on civil rights. At week's end there was no indication of what he would decide...
...designed to convey students from one point to another when no other safe means of transportation is available. The fact that one has to wait 40 minutes between shuttle bus runs does not mean that the shuttle bus is an unavailable means of transportation and that the bus rider should instead call the escort car. It means that the particular student should be prepared to wait for the next bus, or time his/her departure around the bus schedule...
Hopeful eyes were fixed upon Dennis Hopper's new film, Out of the Blue, expecting it to do for punk what Hopper's Easy Rider had done for communes and cocaine. Unfortunately, Out of the Blue keeps slipping back into country flowerhead basics with New Wave trim. It takes its title from Neil Young, dresses up Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) as a rebellious punkette who alternately sings Supertramp songs and punches safety pins through her face, and it glaringly dates the death of Elvis Presley incorrectly, somehow linking him with Sid Vicious...