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...first big-time record in 1977. Big time and big business are not necessarily the same, however, and although the personnel in the band have changed, Ely's hot-poker music still gets the same puzzled reception from any audiences and executives who expect a country singer to toe the redneck line...
...savage blast in the Liberation Army Daily against the now banned Unrequited Love, the regime also signaled its intent to make liberal artists toe the party line. In the first place, the commentary charged that the script was rife with "anarchy, extreme individualism and bourgeois liberalism." It even took aim at the movie's recurrent image of flying geese in formation-a sinister symbol of emigration from China. Furthermore, it said, the gloomy picture that Unrequited Love drew of the Cultural Revolution besmirched the party's leadership. Said the commentary: "Criticizing mistakes of the party is not patriotism...
Brecht never underestimated the latent power of masochism. One can only kick a stone so many times before one breaks one's toe. Shlink, a wily masochist, turns over his lumber plant to Garga and thus entraps him. Garga must now buy and sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves...
...ball game for obscurity. The Yale baseball team punished three Crimson pitchers to the tune of seven hits and three walks, and the Harvard fielders chipped in with three errors to give Darling, the finest college pitcher in the East, an 11-run lead before he put toe to rubber. The Elis held on, of course, taking a 14-2 decision in the opener of yesterday's doubleheader and riding Joe Impagliazzo's four-hit pitching to seal the nightcap, 4-2. What began as a weekend of promise on Friday has, two rain-days and two losses later, turned...
...through the windows glaring orange out of a hundred majestic black bastions, the committees are seen as they come calling, catching sophomores just accidently attired from top to toe in immaculate tweeds, and Exeter yearbooks displayed with casual prominence...