Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style has a touch of Raymond Chandler; the Fazenda case has a fleeting similarity to the unsolved 1940s Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles. The novel continually echoes tabloid history to enliven its central incident: a 28-year-old murder known as the "case of the Virgin Tramp...
...1940s pinball machines and stellar striptease were expelled from New York City by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia -thereby giving New Yorkers two good reasons to visit New Jersey. While sex in every permutation has long since washed back across the Hudson, it was only last year that consenting New Yorkers were once again permitted to play the pins in public. Similar bans on pinball were decreed in Los Angeles and, of all places, Chicago, which is the Detroit-some, say the Mecca-of | that addictive, kinetic pastime. In those cities, as well, the pins have only in recent years returned...
...F.A.L.N. is the latest standard-bearer of violent Puerto Rican nationalist tradition that goes back to 1868, when machete-carrying rebels briefly proclaimed a republic in the Spanish colonial town of Lares. In the 1940s and '50s, followers of Pedro Albizu Campos not only bombed buildings and murdered officials on the island but also brought terrorism to the U.S.: gunmen tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950, and in 1954 shot up the House of Representatives.* The F.A.L.N. first appeared in August 1974, when it claimed responsibility for a bombing in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The group...
True. Not the least remarkable aspect of Crosby's career was that once it waxed big in the early 1930s, it never waned. He aroused unusual affection in his public. Bing outstripped both General Dwight Eisenhower and President Harry Truman in one popularity poll of the late 1940s. Any one of a variety of casual nicknames-Der Bingle, Old Dad, the Groaner-was enough to identify him in a newspaper headline. In a cartoon his image could be evoked with merely a nonchalant tilted smile, or by one of the pipes or hats or gaudy sports shirts he affected...
Marichal said that during the oppressive dictatorship of Franco in the 1940s, Aleixandre became a focus of hope for Spanish artists...