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...rock music is well played, but deafening amplification makes the lyrics unintelligible. It is not easy to see why this campy trash was a long-running hit in London and a smash success in Los Angeles, except that transvestism has always fascinated the British and the L.A. scene is almost as kinky. For this show, the orchestra seats have been ripped from the floor of Broadway's Belasco Theater and small café tables substituted. These are jammed together without regard for comfort or pleasure. Drinks are served throughout the evening, and in the present instance, customers are advised...
Most people around NSCAR limit their vocabulary to expressions like "build the action, cram those buses down their throats, win the rights of Black children to attend any school they want, and smash the racist offensive;" issues such as the maintenance of bilingual education programs after desegregation, the elimination of "tracking" in schools, and the quality of the Boston educational system as a whole are said to be "counterposed, used as a screen, or distracting from the real issue." For worse, or for better, NSCAR is headed towards a May 17th demonstration around three slogans, and if my guess...
...confusion between image and reality Otoko seeks release from her sadness in the vision of her Intant. Oki tries to break out of his loneliness by finding the heroine of his novel in its model. Confronted by these images, none of the characters is finally able to smash the mirror to see the others as real, independent people...
...solo," and that a great fall's pain is intense. "I lost it all," he says. "The way the act was constructed-not just the way it came about-Cher was the focal point. I never considered it a disadvantage because the act was a smash. But a straight man is a straight man is a straight man ..." A current girl friend, a 19-year-old Cal State psychology student named Ora Renet, adds: "Of course he's bewildered; someone has stepped on his sand castle...
...Mafioso massacre? A bank heist? A CIA caper? In fact, the I hired agents are armed with a cream pie. Their mission: to smash the pie into the face of a local office employee who is celebrating his 26th birthday. The two agents, hired by the celebrator's merry-minded boss for $35 (pie included), are operatives of Pie Face International, one of a growing number of organizations across the country dedicated to the silliest U.S. fad since streaking: smashing pies into the faces of selected victims-for a price...