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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company of 13 singers and dancers, backed by an 18-piece band behind a scrim, worked its way through about 20 Ellington numbers in the course of two hours. They seemed to have all they needed to conjure up a '40s nightclub--dim lights, thick smoke, and swinging music. But they missed the intimacy of a nightclub-sized area; the Loeb stage is pretty forbidding, especially when it's set up as a proscenium instead of the modified theater-in-the-round Loeb directors often choose. Michael Der Manuelian, Ellington's director, didn't even try to protect his performers...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Getting the Swing | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...SUCCESS OF the other songs depended more on a combination of good staging and acting than vocal purity. In "Strange Feeling," for example, smoke flowed like a waterfall from the back of the stage over the front edge, as the offstage male chorus eerily echoed Susan Perkins's ghostly singing...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Getting the Swing | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

Reefer Madness. At Harvard Square, Friday at 1:30, 4:30, 6:30, and 9:35 p.m. With Up in Smoke at 12 noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around Cambridge | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...ultimatum from the terrorists, and had heard an unexplained shot inside the hotel seconds before they acted. At 12:50 p.m. Afghan army commandos and police stormed the room with a 40-second assault that one eyewitness described as "a complete holocaust" of gunfire and explosions. In the cordite smoke, Dubs was found slumped in a chair, dying of multiple wounds; it was unclear whose bullets had hit him. Afghan officials later exhibited what they claimed were the four bullet-ridden bodies of the terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Death Behind a Keyhole | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Charlie Stallone, an independent owner-operator from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (the sign on his T shirt reads SMOKE COLOMBIAN), explains: "Drivers smoke pot to unwind. You've been running ten hours through ice and snow. You're wired. You pull into a stop. They don't sell beer or whisky, so you light up a joint and go to sleep." Those who smoke when driving, adds Stallone, don't do it to get stoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Footnotes from a Trucker's Heaven | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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