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...school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape of the hero's wife he whistles the first bars from Johann Strauss's giddy Voices of Spring waltz. All this is enough to make even the mildest of men, Music Teacher Andy Norris (Perry King), reeeally mad, mad enough to set one of the gang members aflame, smash a second with a tire iron and drive a buzz saw through the spine...
...year: the final 1982 spending resolution, which passed the House by 13 votes; the balanced-budget amendment, which passed the Senate by two votes; and the substitute nuclear-freeze resolution, which passed the House by two votes. "They have had one hell of a record with Congress," says Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic Party and a top troubleshooter for Jimmy Carter...
...south west corner of the Yard is a gate bearing in its comet arch, the directive, "Open yo the Gates that the righteous Nation which keeps the truth Entereth in." But this entrance between Strauss Hall and Lahrriun Hall will be locked at least until the middle of September as construction workers move it forward a few feet...
...same time that Rozelle has been ramming his head straight into Davis and the Sherman Antitrust Act, he has also been trying end-around plays. Political football is not just an expression. The N.F.L.'s All-Stars lobbying team, featuring former Democratic National Committee Chairman Bob Strauss, is wheedling Congress to exempt the league from antitrust laws and make the exemption retroactive in Oakland's case. A slightly troubling side to this is that two new expansion franchises may soon be handed out, perhaps to Phoenix or Memphis or Birmingham or Jacksonville or Indianapolis, and Rozelle has made...
There is some adventure to be found. Summer is often the season for the offbeat in opera. The enterprising Santa Fe Opera will present the world premiere of American Composer George Rochberg's The Confidence Man this week, and is staging Strauss's rare Die Liebe der Danae as well; the Opera Theater of St. Louis in June presented the premiere of Stephen Paulus' ambitious The Postman Always Rings Twice, which it commissioned, and unearthed Prokofiev's youthful one-act shocker Maddalena...