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Student activists are also planning a large-scale rally in front of the John Harvard statue tomorrow. The rally has been the focus of extensive publicity, ranging from daily-changing countdown signs to personal calls urging student leaders to attend...
...intense that anything short of the world premiere of Beethoven's 10th would have been anticlimactic. The clock on the Sunday edition of abc's Beatles Anthology didn't help: Two minutes to Free as a Bird ... one minute ... 15 seconds ... as if it were a countdown to a very special Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Coming at the end of two hours of good music and great vibes, this souped-up, no-muffler megaproduction of John Lennon's wispy little air made the surviving Beatles sound--and their longtime fans feel--very old indeed...
...news on this album is the emergence of seven early, previously unreleased songs by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison in various collaborative permutations. But before anyone starts the countdown clock, be warned that there are no unpanned nuggets here. The five vocals and two instrumentals hold mainly archaeological interest, offering vague signposts to the musical trails the lads would later blaze. The first, In Spite of All the Danger, is a Paul-and-George ballad with John singing lead, the others singing doo-wop with a perversely rockabilly twist, and an anonymous pal banging out triplets on a piano. They imitate...
When the time came for blast-off, there was no big clock ticking off a countdown--just a deep voice that suddenly said, "Zazhiganiye [ignition]." As the white Soyuz rocket soared up over the brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence...
...Countdown to the Pacific Century-theChallenge of Change. Through Sat., March 11.Sponsored by the Asian Business Club and Asia LawSociety. Call 225-7826 for more information...