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...concert of its kind in 20 years, fellow Performers Kris Kristofferson and Wife Rita Coolidge duly toured socialist showplaces, including a pioneer school. Billy, by contrast, crammed a peaked cap over his swirl of black curls, clamped a cigar in his teeth and settled down on a beach to rap with enthralled young Cubans, who, from tuning in to Miami rock stations, already knew the words to such Joel hits as Big Shot and Only the Good Die Young...
...usually women who have been through the experience themselves ("Real experts, not book experts," says Laurie Shields), have developed individualized programs that use many of the techniques of crisis intervention, assertiveness training, consciousness raising. In Grand Island, Neb., for example, Evelyn Spiehs, 49, widowed last spring, attends a weekly rap session with six other women, goes to larger career-guidance workshops and receives legal counseling. "It felt good to know they understood," she says, "and didn't just feel sorry for me. I wouldn't have been able to face anything yet without them...
...Ervin, but How ard Baker is a work of art." Examining the predicament of fiction writers in an age when all psychological twitches are resentlessly understood, he observes: "Since jealousy is now curable, like TB, we can't have people dying of it any more. A few rap sessions, some fearless touch ing, and a new sense of self-worth would have Othello and lago and Hamlet and Juliet back on their feet in no time...
Blandau later claimed that he had been misquoted in the press, but it seemed evident that he had given Steptoe and Edwards a bum rap. Though all scientists agree that Steptoe must document his claim, most do not regard his delay as a "failure to publish." Indeed, a scientific paper is usually not in print until from six months to a year after research is completed. Says Dr. Albert Decker of the New York Fertility Research Foundation, which is going ahead with its plans to present Steptoe with an award on Dec. 1: "You can't expect...
Charles Bates, the retired FBI agent who headed the search for Kidnaped Heiress-turned-Outlaw Patty Hearst, on why he has joined the campaign to free her: "Patty got a little tougher sentence than most bank robbers who have long rap sheets...