Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easily for me: my mother and the curiosity factor," says Liza. When she was 18, her mother asked her to share the bill at a Judy Garland comeback at the London Palladium. "That was terrifying," says Liza. "First of all, Mama was so adored. It's hard to buck that orgy of emotion. Second, Mama suddenly realized that she had a grown-up daughter, that she wasn't a kid herself any more. She became very competitive with me." By 19 Liza had the lead in a Broadway musical, Flora the Red Menace, which lost money...
...Self-oppression: As gay liberation grows. we will find out up tight brothers and sisters, particularly those who are making a buck off our ghetto, coming on strong to defend the?status quo. This is self-oppression: "Things in SF are OK": "gay people just aren't together...
...area which is safe to live in openly. Mafra control of bars and baths in NYC is only one example of outside money controlling our institutions for their profit. In San Francisco the Tavern Guild favors maintaining the ghetto, for it is through ghetto culture that they make a buck. We crowd their bars not because of their merit but because of the absence of any other social institution. The Guild has refused to let us collect funds or pass out gay liberation literature in their bars-need...
...Floyd is afraid that the girls will take some of the competitive spirit out of it and make it more of a joke," Levin said. "But he's being open-minded about it and wouldn't buck if we were solidly for it," he added...
...charity commitment indicates the increased social and political emphasis in modern poetry, Alfred said. Discussing the change in Star-buck's work, he commented, "Eleven years ago you could afford to be funny about social issues. Today, the satire is tougher and more savage...