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...often used to sentence young offenders to haircuts, loss of their drivers' licenses or a day of picking up cans and bottles along the highways. Says the judge, an eleven-year veteran of the bench in rural Woodford County. Ill., "The courts have become the parents of last resort. I was trying to get young people to change their ways before they got sent to prison." But the American Civil Liberties Union complained to the Illinois Courts Commission that his sentences were violating the defendants' civil rights. Agreeing, the commission suspended Harrod for 30 days...
...hotels and littered alleys. Despite everything, Miami Beach still has the assets of pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand the big hotels. And Beach officials are trying to rectify the reputation of resort employees for surliness to tourists. The officials have held special sessions with cab drivers and hotel workers to coach them in etiquette, and passed out buttons to employees reading: BUTTER...
...still photographs, romanticizing the harshness of country life, portraying Suzanne's parents as priggish, old-fashioned country people. The severity of the surroundings is so exaggerated that instead of echoing Suzanne's misery it just makes her look silly and implausible. Would a hip woman from Paris really resort to practicing her typing with the cows in the barn to avoid disturbing her crotchety old father in the house...
...Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Just as he could roar thunderously in the Te Deum, so Berlioz could write with reverent calm in this exquisite tapestry on the early events in Jesus' life. The music is kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis achieves one of his grandest accomplishments on disc...
...which the disaffected husbands in Passing Game, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, hope to end their marriages. Richard (William Atherton) and Henry (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) want their wives to be murdered. To that end, they have rented cottages at a deserted lakefront resort. The reason there are few vacationers around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make a pact. Richard will shoot Henry's wife Rachel (Novella Nelson...