Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-naked woman in a red wig leaped wildly down the streets. Behind her marched a brass band with a mounted cannon; it fired candy at a crowd of more than 1 million people who lined Cologne's thoroughfares for the 151st annual carnival parade on the Monday before Lent. Parading or gawking, nearly everyone was in costume, and sidewalks were thronged with people dressed up as pirates, ducks and even gasoline pumps. One woman wore a full-length black body stocking-with two holes snipped out to expose her nipples. Several frowning, grumpy men sported greasepaint mustaches...
...vision of the press-as-cannon became press-as-popgun when "the national interest" was involved. Invocation of the phrase could limit his criticism of the government's Vietnam policy. And he knew of the U-2 flights a year before one of the planes was shot down, but his view of "the national interest" prevented him from printing what he knew...
...National Guard armory. Even though he could not secure the necessary federal license, William was still able to acquire weapons from legitimate arms dealers, and he steadily collected scores of pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, land mines, plus crates of ammunition and even a 37-mm. antitank cannon...
Nothing was impossible on oldtime radio. The endomorphic William Conrad (TV's Cannon) could have been the lean, rangy Marshal Dillon of Gunsmoke. Midgets walked the earth in those days-voicing the roles of children. Babies were enacted by women who specialized in gurgling noises. Fire was a sound-effects man crinkling cellophane; thunder was a copper sheet vigorously shaken; rain was birdseed falling on paper; a galloping horse was two coconut shells rhythmically handled...
Died. Jimmy Cannon, 63, longtime reporter and syndicated sportswriter; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Cannon grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and at 17 went to work as a copy boy for the Daily News on the lobster shift. He covered everything from wars to murder trials but eventually settled down to sportswriting, encouraged by Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon. A chunky bachelor, Cannon wrote mainly about big-league sport. He also recounted debates of bettors and bums like Two Head Charlie and The Blotter as they examined life's ironies after midnight on the side streets...