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Apparantly I overlooked the fact that there would be a semi-cripple playing first base in the last inning of the most important baseball game for Boston in the last 20 years. Call me stupid, but it just never crossed my mind...
Forever Plaid. In Stuart Ross's tribute to the "guy groups" of the '50s and '60s, the Plaids, a semi-pro harmony group killed on the eve of their first big-time gig, have come back from the dead to croon their tunes, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington St., Boston. Call 357-8384 for more information...
Many of the companies might be interested in moving faster, but they are restrained by a complex network of sanctions back home below the federal level. States, cities, pension funds, universities and sundry other public and semi-public bodies have economic prohibitions against dealing with South Africa that remain in effect even though the federal sanctions are lifted. They have often added penalties for any corporations that they deal with, or hold stock in, that break the ban. "If you're Xerox and you want to sell machines to the California government, you're not going to risk that...
...storm. But we're not immune." For another, the region's scarcity of water poses as much of a challenge as it always has. The northern tier of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with plentiful rivers and low population density, expects no problem satisfying its pockets of growth. The semi-arid southern tier of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, however, has to give water high priority...
...spite of its erotic theme, is strangely sterile and unappealing. The characters are not fully developed. They do not engage us. The reader neither cares about nor understands their motivations or the tortured questionings of their hermetically sealed, inconsequential lives. This work reads like an unfinished draft, a semi-literate assault on what the author perceives as society's narrow-minded preconceptions...