Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take your enemies and your allies alike one by one," says Ray Mungo in the collection's best essay. "Absolutely Exclusive to Asylum." That's a big change for Mungo, who once took on the whole administration of B. U. as editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music...
...Blackman was loving every minute, and in fact, making every minute count. There was Holy Cross, 70 guys with hepatitis trying to play football. There was a minute left in the game and Dartmouth, ahead 31-6, was driving for a final touchdown. With 38 seconds left, the Big Green was passing, and with nine seconds to go and the ball on the Holy Cross one-yard line, Dartmouth called a time out. The boys from Hanover scored on the next play. In an effort to prevent the Crusaders from adding a touchdown in the final two seconds, Dartmouth made...
...King Fisher and Ben Thompson. King Fisher is known to have killed 12 men-not including Mexicans. He had a big ranch on the Nueces River in Texas, and he used to shoot people who came onto his property. Ben Thompson, at the age of 13, deliberately shot a playmate. He later killed a Frenchman in a New Orleans knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown...
...Straight ahead is a wall full of clippings from the Dallas Times-Her-old about Bonnie and Clyde. The crowd now finds out that they are like crowds in other museums: they're unselfish and patient. People crowd around the clippings, but they wait their turn. The newspapers have big pictures of the dead bodies, the bullet-riddled car, the crowds looking at the car and the bodies. The story describes it this way: "Both Barrow and the woman were instantly killed; Barrow being shot through the left temple and through the left shoulder. The Parker woman was shot through...
...this is the end of the wax museum's exhibition. After that, it's out into the warm, sun-shiny air of the big Texas...