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...refugees with the common bond of having been bombed out of a job. They are a mixture of "good ole boys" with beer bellies bulging over the belts of their double-knit slacks, trim women in stylish pantsuits and fur jackets, and young managers and technicians in three-button, charcoal gray suits. The newcomers, skittish and self-conscious at first, soon relax as they sense that they are not alone. Hardly anyone reads to kill time. Conversation is minimal and muted. Children accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran standers-in-line are spotted easily: every few minutes they squat...
Behind that painted grin and black button nose was Paul McCartney. Together with his wife Linda, 33, and their three children, Paul, 32, was enjoying Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Thoroughly disguised as a manic clown, he cavorted down St. Charles Avenue and watched the Rex parade. The McCartneys have been secluded in New Orleans since mid-January, and this was their coming-out party. Paul is also making a record album, using local jazz musicians. Linda plays along on the organ. Paul was so impressed by the festivities that he wrote a new song, My Carnival, for his album...
...Creative Photography Gallery is having a Father and Son Photography Exhibit. It's works by this photographer from New York named Mike Levins and his four-year-old son named Johnny, who evidently used a push button Canon Dial camera. I always knew New York kids were precocious, but this is ridiculous...Anyway. It's there through...
...just not attuned to getting anywhere any other way than by automobile. Some people ride buses. Now trains are coming back-but it's a fad. This country developed in a particular way because of the automobile, and you can't just push a button and change...
Linda Lawrence, a Boston schoolgirl, tells the crowd she is called a "nigger lover." A man in the crowd shrieks with delight. "Oh yeah! My woman's called that too..." Bebopping through the crowd, he stops to hassle a lesbian wearing a "Dyke" button...