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WHEN PRESIDENT FORD was telling New York City to drop dead last month, he evoked a vision of the city as a wayward family to drive home his point. "Responsibility for New York City's financial problems," he said, "is being left on the front doorstep of the federal government--unwanted and abandoned by its real parents." Ron Nessen had used the same kind of metaphor a little earlier, when he called the city "a wayward daughter hooked on heroin...
...Pennebacker, Don't Look Back, when he blew up at a guy from Time magazine. "Man you know what kind of people read Time? The people who read Time magazine are the kind of people who want their news all bundled up and laid at their doorstep every week, people who can't confront the truth. Time magazine would never dare print the truth. You know what the truth is, the truth is Mr. Jones throwing up in the gutter, and Time would never print that...
...boppers eager to squeal or fans looking for a fast autograph. As much as anything, they were all unofficial delegates of a generation acting on the truth of Springsteen's line from Thunder Road: "Show a little faith, there's magic in the night." Just at that doorstep, they found it. Growin...
...Zgharta. The shooting began after a shaky and frequently violated two-week truce, during which it seemed for a time that the wobbly "rescue" government of Premier Karami might be able to contain the situation. With help from Syria, which does not want uncontrolled civil war on its doorstep, Karami had worked out a ceasefire between the heavily armed Christian and Moslem guerrillas. Karami hastily put together a "National Reconciliation Committee," whose 20 members represented most of Lebanon's religious and political factions...
...completed on Sunday afternoon when the Boston Symphony performs two more. If you've been dying to get out to Tanglewood but lacked the means, you'll be in luck Sunday--the Cambridge YMCA is sponsoring a bus that will leave in the morning, drop you at the festival doorstep, and depart right after the concert. There are also buses leaving regularly from Boston--or better yet, a scenic two-hour ride on your own four wheels...