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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...MIAA decision last week came on the heels of a January 31 vote by the association to take away the 1979 state championship from the girls' team because two coaches had recruited player Medina Dixon from Boston...
...Bass Player Roger Waters, who writes most of the band's music, has tempered his lyric tantrums somewhat for the new album and has worked up some melodies that are rather more lulling and insinuating than anything Floyd freaks are used to. Spacy and seductive and full of high-tech sound stunts, The Wall has a kind of smothering sonic energy that can be traced to The Dark Side of the Moon and even past that, to the band's early days on the psychedelic front lines. To fans, this continuity must be just as reassuring...
...stage, spanning 210 ft. at the top. At the start of the show, roadies-rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour-can be glimpsed doing their stuff...
Miller's power ultimately rests on his retaining the confidence of Jimmy Carter. The Treasury Secretary was originally popular around the White House because he was a team player who defended Administration policy in public. But Carter has been warned by advisers to avoid an all-out "My Boy Bill" defense of Miller. Says Brookings Institution Economist Joseph Pechman: "Even if he continues to preside over economic policy, the President himself will naturally lose some confidence as a result of this episode." Impressions of Miller's vulnerability are already seeping into the business community. Concludes Bank of America...
...Dixieland-and taking it on the road. "There's a resurgence in bands," he explains. "The age of the guitars is gone. After the Beatles, there were a few good groups, but most of them were turkeys." But what about his own style? "I never was a Dixieland player. I love it, but I play more of a swing style, a fast four-beat swing, and four-beat swing is what this band is going to be." Says Hirt: "I'm 57 years old, I've been playing for 51 and this is the sound I started...