Word: blues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upheavals and frustrations, the year would be remembered to the end of time for the dazzling skills and Promethean daring that sent mortals around the moon. It would be celebrated as the year in which men saw at first hand their little earth entire, a remote, blue-brown sphere hovering like a migrant bird in the hostile night of space...
False Deacon. Despite the bungling of the ransom delivery, the police and FBI now had an important clue. A blue Volvo parked near by-and containing scuba gear-was found to be registered to one George D. Deacon, 28, a research technician at the Institute of Marine Science across the bay. It was from the Institute that the Boston Whaler had been stolen earlier that night...
...plot, in fact, is minimal. A pleasant place called Pepperland is invaded by a tribe of amorphous music-hating monsters called the Blue Meanies, who launch a devastating attack with "splotch guns," which drain their victims of color, and a ferocious Flying Glove, with jet propulsion and a sinister intelligence of its own. The Meanies' ranks fight the Apple Bonkers (who drop big green apples on people's heads) and the Snapping Turtle Turks with sharks' mouths for stomachs...
Edelmann took considerable trouble with his principal characters-studying the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night, to get their characteristic walks, and watching an old newsreel of Hitler as a model for some of the movements of the Chief Blue Meanie. Edelmann's out right inventions came from everywhere -including the unconscious. He thinks he may have got the idea of the shark-stomached Snapping Turtle Turks because of a Turk he knew who once forced an indigestible Turkish meal on him. He considers the Flying Glove an apt symbol of evil, since "gloves are worn...
...year's end, a severe money squeeze was developing. Blue-chip businessmen had to pay 6¾% for prime loans, another alltime high, and many home buyers were paying well over 7¼% on mortgages. Bond yields rose so swiftly that scores of corporate and municipal borrowers postponed or scaled down the size of new issues...