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...head. We're going to conclude this chapter of our lives." So, with dinner out of the way, the group took the stage at Winterland last week for one final, marathon 37-song set. On hand for the grand farewell: old friends like Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and finally Dylan himself. Their last number, Dylan's I Shall Be Released, began with the line: "They say everything can be replaced." Perhaps...
...Holyoke Center. And some elements of architecture have a physical and emotional impact not so easily pinned down, buildings that make us walk in certain patterns: the Lampoon's crazy island, whose wedge I always walk the long way round on my way home so as to pass the Starr bookstore and not the garbage cans; architectural features that define our perceptions, like the daises of lecture rooms in Sever or Emerson, on which the professor performs or presides in front of an audience made silent spectators by the very structure of the room. These things are so integral...
...Bear's players, wearing the red jersey means being part of a tradition that reaches back to Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Lee Roy Jordan and Joe Namath. Says Defensive Back Andy Gothard: "Football at Alabama is earthly heaven." For the majority of students, the equation seems simple: by their football you shall know them. Cleo Thomas, Alabama's first black student-body president, says: "A national identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing...
...doubt, the fulfillment of many a barber's fantasy. Into the shop came Ringo Starr, covered, as always, with hair. First he wanted his beard taken off, then his mustache. Then Ringo said, "Might as well keep goin'." When the deed was done-in Monaco, where Ringo now lives-the 36-year-old ex-Beatle percussionist was as hairless as a drum. The star was nervous at first, but he quickly found his baldness an advantage. "It's cooler, like," he explained. "This Riviera sun was goin' to me brain...
...Churchill characterized as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." A former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and fellow at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Kennan, 72, is now engaged in his most ambitious effort to solve that riddle. With Princeton Colleagues James Billington and Frederick Starr, he has set up the first major center for Russian studies to open in the U.S. in more than a decade...