Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything resembling a sympathetic and tolerant attitude toward the kind of violent outbreak that occurred during the blackout. Along with Dante, I am inclined to believe that people who sympathize with the wrong aspects of a problem, even with the best intentions, have earned extraordinary punishment in a specialized corner of hell...
...penalties at all for possession of small amounts. Nine other states* have reduced the penalties; 34 more may follow suit. Entrepreneurs would like to cash in on the growing demand for pot. Louisville Promoter Gatewood Galbraith has organized a grassroots campaign to put Kentucky in a position to corner the market if and when pot is legalized. Says he: "Kentucky's already got parimutuel betting. It's got whisky and it's got tobacco. You just can't beat the combination of marijuana and money." Under his plan, the state would license growers and retail dealers...
...chamber is spurring a campaign to lure legitimate business back to Sunset Strip and close down porn establishments. One of its favorite techniques: to ask the city to inspect buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy...
...convention mischief in 1968 and later blissed out on the Perfect Master Maharaj Ji. Davis, it turns out, now sells life insurance for John Hancock in Denver, wearing contact lenses and what looks like a blow-dry hairdo. He is living, he says, a sweet, useful life: Brighten the Corner Where...
...directions to which the public might then positively respond." Now the Polish emigre academic, a man of angular features whose crew cut seems a carryover from the '50s, is comfortably entrenched in the West Wing of Jimmy Carter's White House, in the same large, gold-hued corner office once occupied by another foreign-born but very different ex-professor, Henry Kissinger. Brzezinski, 49, who is variously considered brilliant, arrogant and ambitious, is thus in a unique position to translate many of his long-held theories into policy...