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...After their last song. Nelson and Marmaduke left the stage quickly; the Dead's bass and rhythm guitarists, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, wandered on stage and began to tune up by their microphones: the band's two drummers, Bob Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, were in place and Ron McKernon (" Pigpen ") nosed around at the back of the stage. The Grateful Dead were finally ready, and they moved into " Casey Jones, " from Working-man's Dead...
...Prostitutes. Inevitably the Panthers have complicatedas well as imperiledthe lives of black cops. Black undercover cops infiltrated the Panther organization in New York, leading to the arrest and current trial of 13 Panthers for conspiracy to bomb police stations and public buildings. To Leonard Weir, head of the National Society of Afro-American Policemen, such black cops are "traitors and prostitutes...
...White wanted to point out man's rejection of the ideal human form, he should have placed Thomas Weir's wide-angled distortions next to an erotic Felician Rops engraving (especially Weir's "Untitled" [1967], next to "Satan Semant d'Ivraie" from Rops' Diabolique series). And Brian M. Katz's "Appearing Out Of," if juxtaposed with Henry Fuseli's 18th century painting "The Nightmare," would certainly illustrate distortions of reality...
Bonnie and Clyde was the next step. Says Weir: "I saw Faye Dunaway in those soft sweaters and long skirts and those cunning little berets, and I thought that was one of the greatest things I'd ever seen." Fairchild and Brady thought so too, and WWD swung into action. "We weren't promoting the fashion," Weir insists. "We just went around Seventh Avenue and kept asking everybody if they were doing anything with it. And then, you know, there was a sort of chain reaction and we reported what was going on." WWD used plenty of space to report...
Then along came the big European shows in January of this year. Valentino presented a collection of long lengths in Rome, and Bohan did essentially the same in Paris. Most other top designers in Europe and the U.S. stayed with the "wardrobe of lengths" idea. But no matter. As Weir now recalls: "We made a decision. We decided to make a stand for the long length. We jumped right in on it with both feet." Brady adds: "We hit the development pretty hard. We went way out on a limb, saying this was the coming fashion before there was really...