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...official name is "the Workshop," and it is run by a rather smarmy doctor and a highly officious nurse. The atmosphere is somewhat reminiscent of the mental asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The men do the simplest kind of make-work. While their presence is voluntary, they are psychically crippled by a desperate need for safety and a deep fear of being objects of ridicule, scorn or pity in the outside world...
BRIEFLY: The Paul's Mall complex offers a fine choice of shows this weekend, bluesman Muddy Waters at Paul's Mall and jazz guitarist Larry Coryell at Jazz Workshop... The Chris Rhodes Band, one of Cambridge's most exciting rock-jazz groups, is playing at Tufts Saturday night with Orchestra Luna... Peter Johnson offers another session of traditional music Saturday night with Joe Heaney, an excellent Irish folksinger, and Robin Roberts, who sings and collects folk songs from the United States and the British Isles... Rumor has it that the debut concert of off-key singing team Nixon & Haldeman...
LARRY, CORYELL--Through Sun. Dec. 9 at Jazz Workshop. Call 267-1300 for information...
...long-johns-type "liquid cooling garments," worn under space suits to keep the astronauts comfortable in the blaze of the sun, had become damp and mildewed since they were last used by the Skylab 2 astronauts. The crew doused the garments with disinfectant and spread them around the workshop like soggy laundry. By morning they had dried...
Pogue and Gibson breezed through their initial chores, but then faced a more difficult task. Inching their way to the underside of Skylab's multiple docking adaptor section, which connects the ferry ship and the main workshop, they made their way to a balky, bowl-shaped radar antenna used to measure irregularities in ground temperatures and the shape of the earth. To fix the antenna, the astronauts performed like an acrobatic team-Gibson anchoring himself to a portable foot restraint and holding tightly onto Pogue so that Pogue could get leverage to work. As a mission controller explained...