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Around 5 p.m., Dunayev rehearses his program on-camera. "If it is good, I use the tape," he says. "If not, I do it live." Then he writes an entirely new script for his 10 p.m. show. "It's hell," he says. "You can't repeat either the first program or the evening news [a half-hour show aired at 9 p.m.]. Ten or 15 years ago, it would have been easy, because you could say, 'The bloody imperialists did such and such.' But now we realize it's not black and white...
...place to go record shopping is a small downtown park, just off Mayakovsky Square. The most desirable rock albums, often on tape, are available there, says a Muscovite fan who frequents the park, "if you approach the right people. If you can wait. If you can pay." The tariff is high. A Rolling Stones album may go for 80 rubles (about $120). Prices for mint-condition albums range from 50 to 70 rubles ($75 to $105), which makes record buying a gilt-edged hobby. Cassette tapes are cheaper (around 40 rubles), or even less if they have been copied from...
...weekend evening, the park is crowded with record buyers, traders and tape pirates, who carry a list of merchandise and escort a customer to a private apartment where money and merchandise change hands. The result of this underhanded commerce is a surprisingly timely taste for Western trends. One habitué of the park recently boasted of owning "two Sex Pistols records and an Ian Dury." Another effect is more striking: tolerance-unofficial, of course-of the record deals, and an attempt to give Soviet pop some Western-style spin...
...what emerges from the familiar litany of teacher complaints is that administrative headaches and even physical assaults on teachers can be psychologically less wounding than the frustrating fact that teachers feel unable to do enough that is constructive and rewarding in their classrooms. Whether it is blackboard jungle, red-tape jumble, a place of learning or a collective holding pen for the hapless young, the modern classroom, teachers claim, is out of teachers' control. Some reasons...
Minor details of the bill still remain to be resolved, and Congress has yet to give its final approval to the creation of an Energy Mobilization Board, which is designed to cut through bureaucratic red tape and get the synfuel plants and other priority energy projects completed. Yet last week's action by the congressional conferees essentially completes work on the omnibus energy package that Carter proposed almost one year...