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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girls are expected to marry and swap obsequiousness for fidelity and adulation. The blacks are expected to know their place. (The night before Mardi Gras six or seven blacks fought it out with a throng of whites in the middle of town, and as the fists and beer cans flew, the police, including some black officers, had a rough time containing things. Nonetheless, when it was over, no guns had been drawn, no arrests had been made and nobody said a word about it. To go to Mamou, then, is not to seek modernity. And nobody said quaint ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...interior and exterior, enveloped the men of Mamou on the morning of the great ride. Breakfast was beer and boudin (pronounced boo-dan, a muscular local sausage of rice, pork and pork liver that can quickly become an addiction). The mounted Cajun corps made it half a mile down the road before it had to find a field to relieve itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Shayne Kukulowicz scored the winning goal 24 seconds into overtime of a fast-paced, hard-hitting game, but the contest was marred by an incident that occurred immediately afterwards. Cornell goalie Darken Eliot was hit in the back of the neck by a beer can. He was not seriously injured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 Best Games: A Study in Drama | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

...death of the movement. Those who have rejected the Best mission or who never accepted it are all too ready, even eager, to proclaim the Beats washed up. Many have joined the establishment, Still, a small group can be seen in San Francisco's North Beach, sipping coffee or beer, reading and writing poetry and getting into shouting matches...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: A Beat Collage | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

...Myra A. Mayman donated a home-cooked dinner for six, which sold for $160 Tom Barkin, a tutor in the House, offered to shave off his four-year-old beard for $145. And the House grill sold all the pizza you can eat in 15 minutes (plus a free beer to wash it all down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot House Auction Nets $1900 | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

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