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Realilstic scenes of life (birth, play, death), but there is no everyday banality to these photos. It's all in the way they've looked at it; the shot of birth from the rear, of kids around a pool at a three-foot high eye level...
...would be the only ones to appreciate it (I mean, when you're sober and shaking from the vibes of that fifth-of-a-century mile-stone roaring up over the hill and down towards you in a Big Mack diesel dribbling lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and ashes from a three-foot seegar all over the steaming tar pavement and dwarf pine trees, about to blow you off the road and ream out your Youthwagon--that's no time for a country song--that's the time for whipping a Ueey and glueing the gas pedal to the floor board...
...stage in years. With a flair for the old-fashioned bravura style and a staggering technique to put it across, he is a one-man tidal wave of sound. His hands can hammer out octaves with machine-gun speed and force. He can pounce on flawless trills from a three-foot distance. He can zip off glissandi in octaves and double notes that would tear the fingernails of many pianists. Occasionally, when he decides to program a piece that demands it, he can even play sweetly and with charm...
...crowd of about 300 remained in the Common even after the first police charge on the Park St. subway stop. Police again charged, wielding their three-foot clubs and driving squad cars to disperse the crowd. Chased into the streets, the Cemonstrators began breaking windows in the apartment buildings and private homes along Charles St. Eight plate-glass windows in store fronts at Beacon and Charles Sts. were broken by rocks thrown by the demon strator-many of them apparently of high school...
Here and there the floods left a boon. On the Kairouan plain, 80 miles south of Tunis, a three-foot layer of soil was washed away, uncovering a sizable Roman village. Inland lakes eight miles wide were created by rainfalls of 16 inches in 24 hours. The lakes are now draining down to raise the water table, and farmers are assured of at least four years of well-watered soil. Most important, the rains that battered 80% of Tunisia bypassed coastal resort areas whose hotels account for $40 million in tourist revenues annually. Even so, cancellations already total...