Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rouge has always been sketchy, there has been a lot to know--years of daily horror stories, broad ones of policy and small ones of people--about the American presence. One could only assume that it was worth fighting against and that whoever was doing the fighting, under the banner of liberation, must be strong and admirable. At first The Crimson was against the war because it was a bad and wasteful thing for America to do; supporting the liberation movements, a step most of the anti-war movement didn't take, was for us a logical next step...
...beaten he was hospitalized; at Aveiro, a soldier was killed (accidentally by a fellow soldier) while protecting the headquarters from townspeople who were pelting the building with cobblestones. Angered by onesided reporting in the Communist-controlled press, demonstrators in Rio Maior destroyed a truckload of newspapers and strung a banner across a building in the town's main square proclaiming PEOPLE OF RIO MAIOR COMMAND THE END OF FALSE INFORMATION...
...Each of the record's 16 cuts is specifically designed for maximum commercial air play on a different kind of radio station. There is, for instance, a ragingly patriotic lament for country-and-western stations (in which the singer bitterly points out that "we play The Star-Spangled Banner at ball games, but still one team always loses") and for nostalgia stations a vintage 1943 situation comedy called the Albert Brooks Show, complete with station identifications and commercials for war bonds. Since Brooks was born four years later, he calls this final selection "my prenatal work...
...final day, for instance, the Justices ruled that defendants have the right to represent themselves without a lawyer if they wish and that border-patrol officers may not randomly stop cars away from border checkpoints to search for illegal aliens. If such cases did not add up to a banner year of decision making, court watchers were nonetheless fascinated by a potentially important change within the court: the continuing emergence of Harry Blackmun, 66, from the shadow of Chief Justice Warren Burger and the resultant cracks in the so-called Nixon bloc...
Posterity's revenge on writers who overshadow it is to turn them into monuments. In the case of Edmund Wilson, the process was well under way two years ago when he died at 77-already muffled in a banner bearing the legend "Distinguished Man of Letters." But here, in The Twenties, Wilson's ghost puts in a timely appearance that should forestall too much veneration-breaking out the gin, putting a record on the Victrola and eagerly looking over every pretty flapper in the room...