7 next week (thus picking up four points) and still move past "Friends" in the race for most 1986 points. Also due at the Pacific are Robert Plant on June 18 and Tears for Fears on July 10 Tickets for those shows will be available Monday. "I don't send a print out unless it has a sense of mystery" He knows that has happened when "it feels like every cell in your body is applauding you" Though identified with beautifully made art of appalling subjects, Witkin says he is "open to change" Currently working on a 14-foot bronze crucifix with "photographic information" worked into its surface, he gives himself "a couple more years" with his current mode of photography. The remainder of the super-eclectic bill involved familiar Joffrey fare: the lovely post-card romanticism of Gerald Arpino's "Italian Suite" the brutal anti-feminism of William Forsythe's mod "Love Songs" and the folksy glitz of Arpino's all-American "Jamboree" The evening produced one casualty, unfortunately, in Jodie Gates, whose injury in "Love Songs" forced the omission of the "Riverwalk" duet in the subsequent "Jamboree". At Tavern by the Sea, the restaurant provides the wall space and throws a reception for the featured artist.

The others, of course, constitute the old guild membership" However, Larson-who holds a whole slew of awards, grants and commissions, sits on numerous program boards judging others' works, and is currently composer-in-residence with the Minnesota Orchestra-points out that women's organizations can be "a trap, an excuse "To begin with, the programmers (of these groups) are naive They think they're bringing works to the spotlight. It closed with the same heroic challenge that had brought the maestro's inaugural agenda to a climax last fall: the Prokofiev Symphony No 5. Though the sound was surprisingly decent, and the pops-flavored first half eminently listenable, no one seemed to be having a really bang-up time of it outside. The latter company says it serves 33. 5 million homes and 19 foreign countries. The rock seems to float silently through a dreamy ambiance where danger is more real because it is not quite apparent.

In addition to the plastic beauty of its movements (based on the Humphrey-Weidman tradition, Limon's telling of Shakespeare's tale of treachery and jealousy provides artistically mature dancers with a stunning vehicle for expressing human passion. (D-Tenn-began attracting national attention in June with its crusade against "morally offensive" pop music, but has achieved a much higher media profile in recent days. mainland for the contras who have become his friends (John Ellington, Tony Plana) So the moral of the story could well be: Go for it. "He should get off his butt and go out and see what's going on" Trieman characterizes the museum's local interests as "a constant repetition of artists who have made their mark in New York" But, says San Diego resident Allan Kaprow, the noted father of '60s Happenings: "Every city complains that its curators don't pay enough attention to local artists It happens in Berlin and Milan and Paris. One day I was walking on the Goldwyn lot, and I heard my name mentioned I looked up and Sam Goldwyn was standing there 'You look depressed, Billy' he said. "Well, sure but don't let your soup get cold" She glanced in her rear-view mirror, then snapped the compact shut That onion soup was soulful full-bodied stuff.

27 at the South Coast Repertory, the word would have to be elegant. Lou Paciocco, the reigning king-queen-of La Cage aux Folles, is half owner with his brother-in-law, Zippy Russo, but of Follerie there is none in this quietly handsome place. Most folks just shuffle their feet nervously and walk sheepishly away. KNBC with correspondent Kent Shocknek, who had covered nine previous shuttle launches, broke into NBC's morning "Today" program 35 seconds before the launch at 8:38 a. m (PST The explosion came less than two minutes later.

As usual, the day began with the foreign-language symposium-read press conference-at the Beverly Hilton featuring four of the directors and one of the producers of the five nominated foreign-language films. Country Instrumental-Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler, "Cosmic Square Dance" track Country Song"Highwayman" Jimmy L Webb. films that scored high in the survey include Akira Kurosawa's epic "Ran" the multinational production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" "The Official Story" from Argentina, Bertrand Tavernier's "A Sunday in the Country" and "Himatsuri" The Brits did well: "Plenty" "Wetherby" "Dance With a Stranger" "The Shooting Party" "The Emerald Forest" "A Private Function" and "Brazil" The critics from the hinterlands may not have the same array of alternatives as the metropolitan muckamucks but they adjust. The show required explanation less because it was spoken mostly in Japanese than because its message, in any language, would not be readily accessible It is designed for absorption through metaphysical pores. This is the day Major League Baseball officially starts for anyone who's owned a TV set the last three decades. The accent and the focus changed, of course, but the refinement of gesture, the intellectual provocation and the expressive pathos did not. I'm in a young man's business' " The book-scheduled to be published by Warner Books late next year-provides Smith with the new challenge he was seeking when he left the top spot at Elektra three years ago.

And over the years, each has had to deal with occasional raised eyebrows among chamber music buffs suspicious of any departure from the norm. Fields, propman Harry Caplan and an audio interview with the grown-up Baby Leroy "The film is a tribute, but not a whitewash. SAN DIEGO — Some of the latest in international cinematic comedy, tragedy, documentary and animation will be presented during a weeklong film festival that opens Friday at the Fine Arts Theatre in Pacific Beach. Early in the 1960s, four young chaps out of Oxford and Cambridge were recruited to do a satirical revue as part of the Fringe, a sort of semi-disowned, semi-detached aspect of the Edinburgh Festival. Even the fans that used to come out aren't coming out anymore. It began with a healthy dose of modernism: the West Coast premiere of Charles Wuorinen's "Movers and Shakers" Wuorinen happens to be the current composer-in-residence at the San Francisco Symphony.

So complete is the illusion that it becomes increasingly hard to believe you're not back in the Renaissance. David Blair's staging of 1968, never a paragon of stylistic virtue, has been picked at, pecked at and appended by a disparate succession of well-meaning hands: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elena Tchernichova and now John Taras. Before that happens, however, a new piece by Miller opens July 26 at the Cast-at-the-Circle. Anderson also said that he planned an article on the letter in about a week.

I once saw this 142-minute movie edited down to 89 minutes"Oliver" the musical that won the Oscar for the best movie of 1968, was recently released (RCA/Columbia, $79. 95. Winners of technical achievement awards: Nat Tiffen of Tiffen Manufacturing Corp. I am satisfied with that" As part of that fifth season, she returns to Ambassador for a recital next Sunday night. The portrayal of Lena, in Athol Fugard's "Boesman and Lena" presented in October at the Educational Cultural Complex, was so genuine that when Sylvia M'Lafi Thompson is seen later in her office in the presidential suite at the ECC, it's hard to believe you are seeing the same woman. They like being on the West Side and are grateful for the unobtrusiveness, preferring to begin with a trickle of customers rather than a flood "It gives us time to adjust and mature" Russo said "Any restaurant has problems in the beginning. Each centerpiece will feature large sprays of pink and mauve cymbidium orchids (which currently fill the entire greenhouse of a Hackbarth friend; he sent the flax branches to a local body shop to be lacquered in black. "As corny as it sounds, it really was one from the heart" Apodaca, 34, said during an interview earlier this week at the museum.