Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dripping canvas before the bonfire finally got lit. "It's marvelous," said he, and went on to muse on time's familiar way of shrinking one's childhood world: "When I was a kid, that Allegheny Bridge was the Golden Gate. Today I realized I could clear it with a 9-iron...
Skilled sharpshooters tightened their grips on telescopic-sighted rifles atop the terminal at Cologne-Bonn airport as Air Force One flew out of clear skies on its 7½-hour flight from Washington. Soldiers with submachine guns crouched behind sandbags near the runways. In Bonn itself, some 15,000 police officers, including 900 plainclothesmen, took up fixed positions or mingled with crowds. The security troops were, in fact, more numerous than any assembly of civilian spectators who turned out to see Jimmy Carter on his first presidential visit to the West German capital...
...where gambling of every variety is not so much diversion as obsession. From the dowdy bingo parlors of Clapham Junction to the nobby casinos of Mayfair, the British now spin the wheels of chance to the rhythm of $15 billion a year. The main reason for the boom is clear to all: Britain is the most liberal gambling society in the world...
DYLAN TRIES TO FIT a ballad into his new style in "Changin of the Guard", but cannot quite pull it off. The ballad's lyrics, full of the never-quite-clear symbols Dylan has used with such relish over the past few years, just does not mesh with the music; the keyboard work is a little too slick, the background vocals...
...story line follows a young man, Mio, the son of an anarchist executed for a murder he did not commit. Fate brings him to New York, seeking to clear his father's name. Who does he fall in love with but the sweet young sister of a witness to the murder who refuses to speak out and is being strong-armed by the actual killer, lately out of the joint...