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...awful lot of time is going into the setting up of the stage for the concert. The tour carries a stage, and a complete set of lights, a complete sound system and crew, and a forts foot mirror. The stage had been up Monday night. The lights and the sound came in early Tuesday. Union regulations require the presence of the crews, so there are always twice as many people onstage as were needed...
...overdose of sleeping pills did the world learn just how seriously she wanted to be taken. Aside from her ambitions as an actress, she tried poetry, which interested Carl Sandburg enough for him to request copies of three short works. Published in the August McCall's, they mirror Marilyn's somber side. Samples...
...vehicle for an affectionate Highlands scene-and-character sketchbook. But the Hoyle stories are the playthings of genius. Because they carry around no portentous sociological baggage, the Hoyles are all the more effective at the classical task of science fiction, which is to satirize grotesque social reality in the mirror of scientific possibility. More than that, the tales have that rarest of qualities in fiction, science or otherwise: gaiety...
...stage and its blindly waving fringe of teeny-bopper arms, they precipitate a form. It is Mick Jagger, Jumpin' Jack Flash in person, laced into a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and painted like a Babylonian hooker, back-lighted by amber spots and front-lighted by a Mylar mirror the size of a movie screen slung from the roof trusses, belting into the chorus...
...fascination is that each convention achieves a being totally its own, with its particular cast of winners and losers, its unique settings and vocabularies. The Republicans in '64 ("Extremism in the defense . . ."), the Democrats in '68 ("The whole world is watching . . .")-each convention is a special American mirror. So it will be in 1972. In the hot and gaudy placelessness of off-season Miami Beach, the Republicans and the Democrats will broadcast their particular versions of America...