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...campaign trail, Hunt has tried to ignore the Helms attacks and stress his own achievements as Governor. "We will take our lumps right now, lay out our organization and get the campaign going on our terms," explains Hunt Press Aide Stephanie Bass. "If they can talk us into punching the tar baby, they've got us." Hunt has developed a strong supporting machine through a patronage system affecting about 4,800 state jobs and appointments. He describes the race as probably one between "a moderate and a reactionary." The Helms strategy, on the other hand, is to draw...
...pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde has a 15-month-old baby; Chambers' wife is expecting her own in July. Not incidentally, the band also has a smashing...
...LAST TERM at Harvard, when Sabath is not on stage in Fiddler, or T.F.ing a course in information theory, he sings bass with the five-year-old Din and Tonics, one of two all-male a capella groups on campus. The Dins perform about 60 concerts a year and have traveled to Bermuda three times. Sabath considers singing with the Dins "the greatest part of my Harvard experience," providing him with an outlet for his love of the stage...
BOWIE HIMSELF did more than 300 concerts in 1983 alone. Aside from the AEC, he travelled with Roots to the Source, a band made up of his ex-wife Fontella Bass, her gospel singing mother Martha, and brother David Peaston, along with drummer Philip Wilson (an old pal), and Chicago based saxophonist Ari Brown. Bowie also formed the new Brass Fantasy group from the core of the New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company, and he plans to record with them at the end of this summer...
...events could spur legislation more quickly than another big oil takeover. Flush with then" recent successes, Pickens and the Bass brothers might go after other companies. Arco, having been spurned in its bid for Gulf, may also start shopping. To be sure, there is not likely to be another combine of the size of the Gulf-Socal deal. But as long as the price of oil shares remains cheap compared with exploration costs, merger fever in the oil industry will be far from burned out. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Richard Woodbury/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York