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...impact of the mine's encroachment continues to spread. Butte's population, which stood at 80,000 during the boom early in the century, has plummeted to 24,000 as many citizens fled in search of employment. More than 50 businesses have deserted the once-stylish uptown district since open-pit mining began. With the exception of one small bank building, no major construction has taken place in Butte since 1962. Arson has become common as people who are unable to sell their devalued buildings burn them for the insurance...
...with a welder?the trend in big cities is toward variety and segregation. There are bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals, male prostitutes and sadomasochists. At the Eagle, an s. and m. bar on Manhattan's Lower West Side, the uptown "Bloomingdale's crowd" is derided by a tightly packed throng of men in leather and Levi's. They come by subway or taxi rather than motorcycle, but they often wear motorcycle outfits, chains, handcuffs at the hips. Various colored handkerchiefs indicate different exotic sexual specialties, all of which can be quite confusing...
Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...
...other themes for gallery summer shows is "From Our Collection." These shows are interesting because they reveal a gallery's basic activities. They're showing the artists that are affiliated with them Newbury Street galleries look like copies of posh uptown New York galleries Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnaband actually imports what the others aspire to imitate-they're the Boston representatives of Motherwell, Frankenthaler and others whose paintings they're exhibiting now Graphics 1 and 2 is showing equally famous contemporary graphics...
...nation, it has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 students and is just recovering from a brush with fiscal disaster. In 1972 N.Y.U. faced a $7.9 million deficit, and the trustees had to embark on an austerity drive. They sold the university's second campus, ten miles uptown from the main campus in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, dropped its engineering school, and cut the full-time faculty from 2,200 to 1,965. This year the deficit is down to $3 million, but N.Y.U. still faces the long-term problems of other private universities. Tuition will...