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Show 'mil v o H ;: ( jv' U5 The Association, shown in the dressing room at a previous concert, performed at the Special Events Center last Friday night. Association pops up predicted surprises BY RICHARD ROMNEY Entertainment Editor I spent last Friday night trying to put the Association into a classification, and I 'failed. In their performance at the Special Events Center, they played such a variety of songs that everyone was a little bit surprised. But nobody was surprised at their Nostalgia succumed to progress as the seven-member music machine ma-chine ripped off some new numbers num-bers from an album that they said will be released in the near future. The Association showed both in word and song that they have not been dead or sleeping, but that their year's work recording a new album was time well spent. talents, or their running comic remarks interspersed between the numbers. Probably the closest tiling to a category for the group would be the label "entertainers." But that hardly covers the subject. The Association perfomed with casual effectiveness, fitting their mood to that of the audience until the entire crowd melted into a romantic flood of togetherness. But in the flood there were some waves of surprise, and a little disappointment that they didn't dwell more on their past hits, though they used their million-sellers to highlight a totally to-tally mellow program oriented towards current affairs and pleading plead-ing for brotherhood. A high point of the program was a poetry reading by Jim Yester, when he dramatically recited the verses of a Vietnamese children's composition. |