Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outraged that anyone would dare arrest his minions, Kirk decided to return to Bradenton-but not before giving an impromptu press conference in a corridor of the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, where his German-born second wife Erika was giving birth to a son, their second child. Defending his stand, Kirk demanded "my day in court"-but not just any court. "I want to be in the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday or Monday to get law on the subject of busing," he said. Alluding to President Nixon's recent speech recommending local options in carrying out desegregation (TIME...
DIRECTOR Michael Wadleigh has insisted time and again that he retained total control over Woodstock. New if the people who write about movies in this country knew anything about them, he wouldn't dare make that admission: but as it is, the Woodstock movie is being hailed as imaginative movie-making. It's not: it's poorly shot, clumsily edited, has no new ideas about the event, nor any on how the event should be presented. If you were at Woodstock, you'll know the film for a shuck: if not, you'll suspect...
When things cannot be changed right off, though, the blues can be a big help. Like a lot of other white blues singers today-Joplin, Johnny Winter, John Mayall-Cocker occasionally encounters resentment that he, a white man, should dare to sing the black man's music. His reply to that is that the blues is now so important a music that it transcends racial boundaries. "Blues are in the back of everybody's mind," he says. "Everybody needs an outlet, 'cause no matter what you've got in possessions, you're still up against...
Despite the court ruling, the show ran Thursday nigh in the unexpurgated version. The cast closed the production with an improvised chant: "How dare they try to stop this music...
...freedom-of-choice plan, the modern all-black Walker High School had to send all its eleventh and twelfth graders to the all-white Ludowici High School, where 65 blacks and 621 whites are now enrolled. Blacks can also enter Ludowici's ninth and tenth grades-but dare not to. Conversely, whites can enter those grades at Walker-but refuse to. Result: Walker has lost two grades and remained all black...