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...York, Hoffman has been on the lam since jumping bail 13 months ago. In an interview with Ron Rosenbaum of New Times and TV Documentary Producer Michael Shamberg, Hoffman described in considerable detail his new life as a member of the underground. Not only has he undergone plastic surgery, claimed the onetime Yippie leader, but he took a daytime job for a while, began going to night classes, married a second time, and even survived a minor drug arrest without being recognized. The cat-and-mouse game between fugitive radicals and the police "is the greatest show in the world...
...requirements for play are modest: an open space measuring 60 yds. by 45 yds., two teams of seven players, a clock to time the two 24-minute halves, and one $4.50 plastic Frisbee. Goals are scored by catching the Frisbee in the end zone, which can be as deep as the Frisbee flies-or the receiver cares...
Getting the Frisbee to the end zone is what stirs the bedlam. The plastic disk can be moved only in the air, and whoever catches it is allowed only three "momentum" steps before passing it on. The offense keeps moving only as long as it controls the Frisbee; when passes are blocked, intercepted, dropped or go out of bounds, the Frisbee is turned over to the other team. When a player has the Frisbee, only one opponent at a time may try to block his pass. Substitutions are allowed during breaks in play, and fouls are called on the honor...
...bunch of stuff done by people who like to create in a visual way and are learning new ways to do so. Some of the works are class assignments, some aren't. Some are exciting, some trite or boring. There are lithographs and photographs, mylar and plastic, oil painting and silkscreening, hung mostly according to genre in a loose, disorganized way--with corrections penciled in on nametags that keep falling on the floor...
...refugees themselves, with their Leatherette suitcases and string-tightened plastic bags-those who were privileged and got reserved seats, those who scrambled and were saved-are so motley and undefinable that some among them can be used to prove any argument, except the one about communicable diseases, which inspection shows them not to have. They include those who bribed their way out; those who made quick marriages-as well as those who mastered English and technical knowledge and worked for IBM or the Department of Defense or Chase Manhattan; those who are trained doctors or pharmacists; those...