Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those of the liberal Globe either. In 1971, after Frazier savaged the TV performance of five earnest young Boston reporters, attacking them mainly for looking tacky on camera, Editor Tom Winship sacked him. Frazier promptly hired a small plane to fly over a jammed local football stadium trailing a banner: BRING BACK GEORGE FRAZIER. He was soon rehired...
...mind brings to the work. But if these ideas were foreign to the listener the music could just as easily suggest the drama of collective action or revolutionary opposition to capitalism. Themes by Beethoven have already served both revolution and fascism: the Ninth Symphony, for example, served as a banner both for the Spanish Republic and for Alex of A Clockwork Orange...
...been a banner weekend for Harvard hockey. Following a pair of convincing wins over Colgate and Cornell, the Crimson have moved into first place in the Ivy League and a tie for second in the ECAC...
...District of Columbia, its suburban circulation makes it the largest morning paper in Maryland and the largest paper-period-in Virginia. Publisher Katharine Graham has not let the rigors of Watergate coverage stiffen her sense of humor: "Wherever I go, someone inevitably declares that this has been a banner year for journalism and the Post. That's true, though in much the same sense that tropical storm Agnes was a great time for disaster agencies...
...latest wordiest woman to break loose and bring out the banner is Erica Jong--poet (Fruits and Vegetables, Half Lives), New Yorker (she lives on the same Manhattan block where she grew up), middle class, Jewish. Erica Jong has written a medley of a book, something of a cross between a True Confessions of a Feminist--How Tough it Is and a Portnoy's Complaint. The book is probably meant to be the new monument to the movement. It's got everything: woman as Oedipus, masochist, narcissist, feminist; woman as hostage of her fears, her fantasies, her false definitions; woman...