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...sheep barn they are judging black-faced Suffolks. As the owners hold their animals' heads with one hand and rumps with the other, a judge crouches in the center of the ring, staring each bleating contestant in the eye. He gets up, walks over and sticks a finger into a sheep's chest to see how firm it is. If firm, the two dozen spectators murmur approval: if the judge's finger sinks deep into the sheep's chest, a groan goes up. After half an hour of prodding and measuring, groaning and murmuring and bleating...
...King. August 13 and 15 at Suffolk Downs, for Summerthing. Tickets are $3. Leon Russell. August 13, Schaefer Stadium. Tickets are $5 now, but $6 at the gate...
Maybe they weren't afraid of the crowd, but I was. The several thousand who crammed the Suffolk downs infield to see Sha-na-na and the warm-up group, Aerosmith, were ugly and fearsome. The Suffolk Downs people and the promoters had run the concert about as badly as it is possible to run one; and after such treatment the crowd's ill will was excusable, if not justifiable. Most had survived a crush through eight small turnstiles at which there was no separation between people who had tickets and people who didn't--fences were torn down; cops...
...knew what to expect, and it is impossible to package and sell the unpredictable. Watkins Glen went like clockwork. It even rained on time. Because of the precision, there could be no spirit of Watkins Glen. Yet in the midst of the crush at the stage of Suffolk Downs last week, one young girl stood on her friend's shoulders to exhort the crowd...
...Lenox and see The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Don't ask questions, just do it. Ella, with The World's Greatest Jazz Band, at Suffolk Downs, for the Sunset Series, July...