Village Voice Archive The Age of Lunacy on a Muddy Meadow
The Moon-In on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park last Sunday night came off as the world’s largest outdoor multi-media program.
Vying for spectator popularity, three huge screens representing each of the major networks stood like the ruins of a technological Stonehenge under an arc of crisscrossing searchlights. An artificial moon hung overhead where the beams converged in the mist, casting a biblical light on some 10,000 pilgrims who came to watch man’s first steps on another planet.
A new breed of fresh-air TV viewer sloshed through ankle-deep mud waiting patiently for Armstrong to plant
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