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Tonight through Sunday, $3.50 gets you past the Passim (492-7679) bouncer see Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer, both quiet folkies. Tuesday and Wednesday Musica Orbis play an unusual fusion of classical, folk and rock, admission is $3. (Don't forget the live concerts on WCAS Sunday afternoon...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...says Barbara Ringer, the U.S. Register of Copyrights, the new law "is a balanced compromise that comes down on the authors' and creators' side in almost every instance." To clear up lingering or future royalty inequities, a five-member presidential commission will be created. Does all this resolution of old confusions refute Twain's cynicism? Well, perhaps not. James Fitzpatrick, a full-time copyright lawyer who represents the Recording Industry Association of America, among others, was recently asked whether his workload would now decline since the lobbying battle is over. He did not hesitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Righting Copyright | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...Goof and The Clicking of Cuthbert. Nor has any opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game. Still, whenever a starry-eyed young thing with a shaky backhand contemplates courtship and marriage through mixed doubles, some dreadful figure should come out of the woodwork, wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists is a Buchwald column about a tennis-blighted romance between Patty and Bob. Its message can be taken in two quotes from Bob. Premarital: "You look so cute when you miss." Postmarital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Winning Through Intimidation, Ringer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...clutch holes were the seventh and the par three 160-yard seventeenth. On the seventh, a par four, he split the narrow fairway with a 4-wood off the tee and gouged a wedge that skipped up against the flagstick. He bladed an eight iron for his second ringer of the day but missed the birdie putt...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Swats Errant Golfers | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

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