Word: beane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston is the home of not only the bean and the cod but also the aptly named Combat Zone. The city set aside this seedy downtown area three years ago for X-rated movies, porn shops and other facets of the skin trade-in hopes of being able to contain them. But over the past year, violence has followed the vice: a Harvard football player was fatally stabbed, an exotic dancer was strangled, and a brisk trade in guns sprang up. Looking for ways to curb the rough stuff without closing the zone down, the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
...roaring lion is Bill Monroe, 65, the patriarch of bluegrass music for more than three decades. The setting is Bean Blossom, Ind. (pop. 200), a hilly, country village where Monroe has now staged eleven annual bluegrass festivals. The fiddlers, pickers and fans at Bean Blossom are part of a steadily growing phenomenon. Before the year is out, some 500 bluegrass festivals will lure countless thousands of Americans to county fairgrounds, college campuses and places like Cumberland, Ky., Spruce Pine, N.C., and Grass Valley, Calif...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...
...amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms of technical achievement...