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...least a temporary suspension of conventional musical expectations is also necessary for an appreciation of these four albums. Given such a suspension, the records present a superb example of both the successes and failures of the music that has been labelled avant-garde jazz. The four featured musicians represent a fair selection of the music's most important figures. Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone) and Cecil Taylor (piano) were among the first of avant-garde's proponents. Albert Ayler (tenor sax) was an influential force in the music throughout the '60s and Marion Brown (tenor sax) is a late-blossomer...
...three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark: "The Vietnamese run my camp...
...first time we lost and still felt we did a superb job," Coach Molly Quinby said yesterday. "Usually [in a loss] there's a thousand things we can point out that we did wrong, but we did the game justice...
...medley and mile relays. Ann Fletcher won the 200 low hurdle with a time of 37.19 Jane Borthwick took the high jump with a leap of 4 ft. 3 1/2 in. Nicole Bourgols won the 440 in 68.7 seconds, a performance which Radcliffe coach Don Jurivich termed a "superb showing...
...things--and more--in Harlan County and Anderson County and the West End of Louisville. And when leapin Wesley Cox and savvied Jimmy Dan Conner take it on the tube Saturday and Monday nights, it should become abundantly clear why it's just morally wrong for Wooden and Co.--superb as they are--to win the NCAAs...