Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the nation, U.S. cities burst into calculated and bravura finery. Bright color blossomed where there was none before, drab public spaces were bathed in light, and people kissed (cheek to social cheek) who had never kissed before. As everyone knows-if reminded-Christmas Day itself marks the birth of Christ. But it is sometimes hard to remember in the weeks before. Instead, the chief big man seems to be that fellow Santa Claus, the patron saint of giving. Pillowed and pastyfaced, he chortles from a myriad of department-store thrones, and pasteboard likenesses beam from drugstore windows. Under...
Sweaty Santas. Though the U.S. has made the Christmas pageant what it is today, other countries have recognized a good thing when they see it. Two weeks ago, some 100,000 mothers and children crowded into Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo Park and watched a helicopter approach. Everyone burst into a frenzied shout when it finally touched down and disgorged a befurred Santa Claus, sweating gamely in the 90° heat...
...section of the stage at the arena-styled ANTA Washington Square Theater has been tilted up so that the playing area resembles a giant record turntable, and since the actors burst into song every few minutes, it sometimes seems as if an invisible disk jockey were directing the play. The best tune, The Impossible Dream, could be transferred intact to Skyscraper, which suggests the show's basic defect. It ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away...
Time was when no Saturday-afternoon kiddie movie was complete with out a Batman-and-Robin episode. Children roared their approval as the "dynamic duo" burst through windows, grappled with thugs and wrestled with wild animals in their lengthy pursuit of the evil Japanese Dr. Daka. Batman fell into cinematic and literary obscurity during the comic-book cleanup of the '50s (in 1954 Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham compared the relationship of Batman and Robin to "a wish dream of two homosexuals living together"). But in the Great Society, everyone lives better, and Batman and Robin have recently been rehabilitated into...
Practice ended with a burst of shouts and a massive rush toward Dillon Field House. There band members had gathered and had blocked out a large V in red railroad flares on the turf. The team entered Dillon though the burning victory sign to frenzied cheers and Harvard song. The band followed the team into the locker room and continued to play fight songs for 15 minutes...