Word: blackout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...political mileu in dramatic outline would not and cannot be enough to keep a play suspended high and Babe Knows so--the crowning glory has to come from soaring moments of poetry from outbursts of noble fanaticism, the over-statement of the impassioned orator. Thus when the final blackout comes it is to chants of Malcolm's "Give us the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot of the Bullet..." The hypnosis the cries generate is appropriate, however inadequate they may be as statements for programmatic action...
...seven-month shutdown of its two daily newspapers had given Detroit the longest newspaper blackout of any ma jor city in U.S. history. Efforts by Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, Governor George Romney and Mediator Nathan Feinsinger to end the strike had been rebuffed; the Free Press and the News stayed shut and the situation was be coming desperate. So the News let it be known that it was thinking of publishing without the benefit of unions...
...Million, for example, tells of a quirky financier who sends million-dollar checks to strangers. A colorless clerk played by Charles Laughton receives his check in the mail, goes to the president of his company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill of giving a razz to the boss was irresistible-to say nothing of the complex moral that a nobody can suddenly acquire the money that can't buy happiness...
Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
After the real reason for the $20 million cancellation leaked out, NASA quietly rescinded its blackout order. Thus, during the first manned Apollo orbital flight-possibly late this summer-the U.S. will finally get its first live TV glimpse of astronauts in space...