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...January, Republican Governor Arch Moore declared 1987 the Year of Education in West Virginia. Some year. Last week 67,000 state college and university students, as well as 8,300 faculty and other employees, learned that most spring classes would be cut by a week and one college summer semester would be dropped. Reason: a Moore order, prompted by an economic slump, for 20% cuts in state-agency expenditures. Asked Ray Bauer, 21, president of the West Virginia University student body: "Are we supposed to put our lives on hold while these clowns figure out what to do?" Apparently...
...times annually. The company claims to serve 17 million U.S. customers each day, providing more than 11% of all dinners away from home and 25% of breakfasts. Observes Conrad Kottak, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan: "You can hardly spend a day without seeing a golden arch. It's a symbol of security...
Denver Housewife Jeannie Lancaster suspected that something was wrong with her son a few months after his birth. "He was always fussy and would never cuddle," she remembers. "When I would go to pick him up, he would arch away." By the time he was one, he had acquired the alarming habit of banging his head against the wall, and when he began to talk, he repeated the same sound or word over and over again. Says Lancaster, "I kept asking myself, 'What am I doing wrong?' " Professional counselors offered conflicting views. A pediatrician thought the boy might be autistic...
Still, the Huxtons retain enough force to resemble the early Who, with drummer Arch Law and bassist Matthew Eddy's rumbling rhythm section and lead singer Rob Craw's milk-curdling snarl. Paris suggests that the Huxtons must be a killer live band. The credit for the successes of Paris--and the blame for its failures--must rest on the shoulders of producer Ian "Mack" McKenzie, who committed that live sound to vinyl. For most of the songs, the production is too antiseptic, too well-scrubbed for the type of rough, crude music the Huxtons play. Occasionally, though, McKenzie...
...renovation has eliminated the dead spots and the echo, although the subway trains still announce their passage. The removal of the drapery has revealed the full sweep of the proscenium arch, giving the hall a more vivid visual configuration, but it also reinforces psychologically the impression of acoustical brilliance. Although the cramped old lobby has been transformed into a gracious entrance flanked by twin grand staircases, entering and leaving the hall is more than ever a contact sport...