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...there are other fringe benefits, Vavpetic explains. "It's nice and cool up here. Fifteen degrees cooler in this part of the tower than the low rise." The lower portion of Mather, Vavpetic says, was "too damn hot. I couldn't breathe...
...Succeed, his longest-running hit, Loesser worked on two more shows: Pleasures and Palaces, which closed in Detroit, and Senor Discretion, for which he had composed drafts of all the songs. This workaholic was a smokeaholic too; in his study, cigarette butts would pile up like a Watts Tower of spent nicotine. Loesser called them coffin nails, and he was right: he died of lung cancer...
This year, three large retail outlet stores will enter the market-Tower Records on Mt. Auburn St., and HMV and The Express, a division of The Limited, at the newly-constructed One Brattle Square. And the Body Shop, an environmentally conscious beauty products store, joined the Square business community...
...perestroika has proved to be an epic with many chapters. Based in Moscow for the past year, Carney has covered the backlash against the Soviet President's liberalization. Last January he was with Lithuanian demonstrators at the television tower in Vilnius when Soviet army paratroopers opened fire nearby, killing 15 civilians. Says Carney: "For the first time, it seemed clear that Gorbachev wasn't entirely in control." That sense was reinforced during Carney's visit to the Black Beret base. Says Carney: "To a man, the Black Berets spoke of defending the Soviet system to the end, regardless of Moscow...
...majority of Lithuanians, though, Seryak and his colleagues are not hero-protectors but agents of repression. One newspaper has dubbed them "angels of death in black berets." Ever since Soviet army paratroopers stormed the television tower in Vilnius in January, killing 15 unarmed civilian demonstrators, OMON has been waging a campaign of intimidation against the democratically elected leadership of the republic. The same is true in neighboring Latvia, where Black Berets raided the republic's interior ministry in Riga, leaving five people dead. In their zeal to enforce the Soviet constitution and the presidential decrees of Mikhail Gorbachev, OMON forces...