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Watergate Conspirator Liddy, who had participated in the raid as an assistant district attorney, is not the first convict to try writing his way to rehabilitation - or at least to use writing as a means of passing prison time constructively. As a participant in a weekly workshop at the federal prison on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Liddy is not even unique in his fame. Mobster Scion Bill Bonanno, central character in Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, was also a workshop student until his parole last week, after serving three years for a stolen credit card scheme...
...York Times's Op-Ed page and has sold a story to Tennis magazine. Bank Robber Hank Garrison (now serving a ten-year term) just sold a story to Stag magazine. "It may not be impressive to some people," says Robert Dellinger, who runs the workshop, "but here's a man who has spent 15 years in prison-15. And he's now sold a story...
...champion, while Tenor Placido Domingo tried out as a bullfighter in Mexico. Now Middle Linebacker Paul Glanton, 20, of the University of Minnesota Gophers seems likely to become yet another singing sportsman. Each afternoon these days Bass-Baritone Glanton works out in rehearsals at the university's opera workshop. Cast as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Paul finds football and opera similar. "If you eliminate the contact," he said, "the performance and the rehearsals in opera are just as strenuous as football." There is another difference too. Paul does not expect someone from...
Keith Jarrett Quartet. A few months back, I goofed by underplaying a local concert by electric pianist Keith Jarrett. Rolling Stone named him jazz man of the year, and his concerts and albums are winning unanimous raves. Live and learn. Through Sunday, March 10 at the Jazz Workshop. Call 267-1300 for information...
Lynn M. Slavitt, co-organizer of the workshop and director of Research for Social Change Inc., a new Cambridge organization designed to assist independent women researchers, emphasized that the "pilot workshop" was experimental. "We wanted a scrambled group," Slavitt said yesterday, adding that the 125 female participants were chosen from a range of fields, particularly those of health, sociology and education...