Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called Communist, radical, bitchy, everything-and she can take it. But if anyone so much as breathes the word lesbian at her, she goes to pieces." During the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality that marked the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage, the issue of lesbianism burst into the open. Some feminist leaders, warned that the participation of lesbians would overshadow other issues, tried to downplay the controversial subject during the marches and rallies. A quiet, often bitter debate followed; the result was a declaration from N.O.W. and tacit agreement by local groups that freedom of sexual...
...holding fast. Unconvinced, Mutters set out in his car to spread the alarm. But there was too little time, and the people of Buffalo Creek had been threatened too often before with false alarms about the dam. Some time after 8 a.m., the wall of slag burst open "like a bomb had hit it," according to one witness, and a huge mountain of water and sludge descended on the hollow, trapping many people still asleep...
MOST OF THE TWENTIETH lot is gone now, gradually sold off in chunks to real estate developers so as to raise money for further production. The small remaining piece of land is jammed with old sets and mock-ups haphazardly clumped together, waiting mutely for a last chance to burst into life on film. The short studio roads flow together soundlessly, and it is easy to become disoriented, moving with only a few steps from a brownstone-lined street in little old New York to the quaint cobbled "place" of a French provincial village to the log-fenced parade ground...
...clearest example of what seems to be intimidation came last Monday, when a group of members of SDS and the University Action Group burst in on Herrnstein at the end of a lecture, pursued him with questions to William James Hall, and followed him to the sixth floor. The incident was so tense that one SDS member and Herrnstein scuffled briefly...
...that comes off. But nowhere, of course, do we read about life in Russia or for instance, about the invasion into Czechoslovakia. That is the price he pays for his freedom. The delivery of this, purposefully perhaps, was abrasive, softened somewhat by the chorus repeating selected lines. Then they burst into a Hair-like version of the poem. Heard were strains of rock, gospel and jazz--all thrown in for whatever measure the audience might think good. With a solid round of booing and scattered applause, intermission arrived...