Word: bashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most U.S. cities, vandals rip off dials, bash in faceplates, amputate receivers and show promise of elevating phone-booth burglary to a fine art. Now Ma Bell has turned to a new "hands free" phone that may help thwart vandals. Placed in Manhattan at Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations and one outdoor location, the new models have already surprised-and disconcerted-thousands of callers...
...devotee of cheap Sodom-in-the-suburbs fiction can predict the finale. Walpurgisnacht occurs at a monumental bash thrown by your typical Fairfield County vulgarian. Crocked, randy, and desperate to get "the Lepridon account," Wilson beds down with the wife (Nancie Phillips) of a fellow commuter in the outside playhouse. Sure enough, a TV monitor, installed to oversee children at play, records the grope for the amusement of the guests and the despair of Mrs., mistress...
...Beistegui squandered fortunes on incredibly lavish parties -most notably in 1951, when at a cost of $750,000 he restored Venice's 89-room Palazzo Labia, gilded it with an estimated $3,000,000 worth of period trappings, then treated 1,500 friends to a stupendous all-night bash...
Among those invited to the Nepalese bash are Charles W. Dunn, Master of Quincy House; Dr. Leona Baumgartner, visiting professor of Social Medicine; Joel M. Porte, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House; John Darling, steward of the Fox Club; and Ko-Yung Tung, a first-year student in the Law School...
...operating on a vast misunderstanding of their nation. Brandeis Political Scientist John Roche tells an anecdote about the Chicago convention troubles. As he was being collared by a cop, a dissident shouted: "Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat!" Raising his nightstick, the cop retorted: "I am the proletariat." Bash bash...