Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazing game; I've never seen everything work so well in one game before," summed up Crimson sophomore crease defenseman Scott Pink yesterday, while recovering from the team's all-night celebration on the bus and 5:30 a.m. return to Cambridge...
...Soweto, South African black teen-agers refused to talk in public, fearful of police retribution. Instead, they climbed on the bus that carried the visiting Americans and, standing in the aisle, spoke haltingly of their struggle for civil rights. Two days later, in an empty Port Elizabeth nightclub, with purple curtains and pedestals of flowers as a backdrop, South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster met with the same group to argue the cause of apartheid...
...good times--it was also something like an imperial summons. Most of the old New York folky crowd's careers were floundering; they were only too happy to tour. One who desperately also wanted to come, and who never got the call, was Phil Ochs. The Rolling Thunder bus pulled out of New York without him; a month later Ochs was a suicide at 41. Ochs and Dylan had fallen out way back in 1965 over "Please Crawl Out Your Bathroom Window"; Dylan, like rock and roll, never forgets. And Rolling Thunder, while showcasing the old folkies of Dylan...
...Hawks went on to better things as The Band while he grew bloated. Ronee Blakelee is as terrified of Dylan in the movie as she was on stage in the tour. Only Blue keeps credence, unstuck in time as he is, recalling the time he took a bus to New York and came back with Camus' The Myth of Sysiphus...
...antique auction, the low-flying cropduster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film he had constructed, and he wasn't above giving himself a little doff of the chapeau...