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...spark that ignited the New Mexico riot took place at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, when two guards discovered two inmates in Dormitory E-2 drinking hooch they had brewed from fermented fruit. The drunken prisoners overpowered the guards and stormed down the corridor to the control center, a cluster of rooms in the middle of the prison. The inmates shattered 1½-in.-thick windows with clubs and, once inside, flicked open many of the switches that control the locks in the prison's ten dormitories and cell blocks...
...draft registration. The once unorthodox blend of liberalism and conservatism that Brown was the first to champion has received increasing popular support; many of the candidates are now describing themselves as "socially compassionate fiscal conservatives." Still, Brown's campaign has yet to ignite, or even give off a spark. The essence of his success in 1976--his unconventionality--has triggered his downfall...
Play moved toward the sloppy and sluggish, but surprising rebounding by Mannix, some offensive spark by Dixon--despite a bothersome tendency toward the bad shot--kept the Crimson ahead by two-to-five point margins in the middle going of the first half...
...artistic fragmentation. The public, not understanding the work it was being presented, quite naturally dismissed most of it as "junk"; the artists, perhaps justifiably but more likely arrogantly or even lazily, began using their work to indulge their whims and fantasies, not caring whether it would arouse a spark of recognition, passion, or even shock in the viewer. The old debate regarding the social utility of art should have been revived, but wasn't, because not many observers considered the work produced worth the effort...
...posters for the film show Robert Redford holding Jane Fonda by the thighs while she hangs on for dear life with her head between his legs. No such scene ever occurs in the film. The posters also advertise with the catchword "Electric," hinting that Fonda and Redford spar and spark together like Hepburn and Grant in the olden days. It's not that the poster meant to lie, they just wouldn't sell many tickets with a slogan like "Blown Fuse." Truth is, Redford makes a cute, loveable cowboy in this pleasant, if pretentious, film. And Fonda makes a cute...