Word: cannonism
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...theater seats tremble, and cannon bursts rock the room as a Civil War battle is played out on multiple moving screens that bob up and down. Welcome to the just opened Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill.--or, as historian John Simon derisively calls it, "Six Flags over Lincoln." The museum, which is scheduled to have its public dedication this week, has weathered years of cost complaints, construction snafus and accusations of mismanagement. Now the museum is open for visitors--and for debate over whether it has done justice to the 16th President or turned him into a theme...
Rock-throwing black and mixed-race protesters fought pitched battles with police in the southern city all week. The authorities responded with two new weapons. One is a water cannon that spews purple dye onto demonstrators so they can be identified later and arrested. The press immediately dubbed the substance purple rain. The second is more lethal: a rapid-fire gun mounted atop an armored personnel carrier that shoots potentially deadly rubber bullets...
...where it lacked polish (an assistant coach: "One thing we'd like to do is get that sucker in the end zone"), it made up in enthusiasm (the play-by-play announcer: "That'll make it third and a country mile!"). During the broadcast, you could have fired a cannon down the main streets of either town and not hit a living soul...
...guerrillas quickly retreated to the fourth floor, where the judges were being held. For the rest of the day the troops raked the front of the building with cannon and machine-gun fire. Inside, the guerrillas held frantic telephone talks in an attempt to demand publicity for their antigovernment views on TV and in newspapers. "We want the people of Colombia to know that the army has never given us a chance," said Otero. "All they've given us is hot lead." At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the voice of Chief Justice Reyes was heard pleading, "For God's sake...
Research for a recent anthology, Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering, by Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center in Salt Lake City, turned up about 5,000 poems by contemporary cowboys (known in their slang as waddies) and ranchers. "If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em," says Knox. "I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry." The first poem Knox penned more than a decade ago describes a barroom brawl he lost, and he's been at it ever since...