Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the Mayaguez incident of 1975 had the National Security Council been called to a nighttime meeting so hastily convoked at the White House. By 8 p.m. last Thursday, the first of the dark limousines and Government sedans of Jimmy Carter's top security aides began rolling through the gates to let off their passengers at the West Wing entrance. When the summons had gone out from Carter, the officials were scattered across the capital. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had just delivered a pep talk for the SALT II accords at the posh Cosmos Club. He dashed...
...only continue to press for continued use of nuclear power, but to push for expanded use, less restrictive licensing procedures, a speedup in plant construction-- and they mean to force it on us by creating yet another "oil crisis," thereby forcing us to choose between freezing in the dark and embracing nuclear power. Another cold winter looms ahead; so does an election year...
...christened it the Studio Theatre. It soon became a haven for arty types from nearby Wayne State University and other hangovers from the "beat" generation. The message here seemed to be that if it was seedy and depressing, it was art, for the film, like the lobby, was dark, dank, and depressing. I left that theatre with an abiding distaste for beautiful, sensitive films, theatres of that genre, and espresso. And these dislikes, though I seldom admit it out loud in this community of sophisticated film-goers, have remained with me through the years despite all the attempts to "turn...
...figure is imposing-tall, a bit jowly, dressed like a businessman in a dark three-piece suit. The backdrop, massed American flags and a 33-member choir of attractive college kids scrubbed to a sparkle, is Fourth of July inspiring. The words are measured out in an avuncular bass. God loves America above all nations, the preacher says, but the U.S. is sure giving heaven a hard time. Amens come from the crowd as the pastor inveighs against all the "infidels and in-for-hells." He scourges the Federal Government for fostering socialism, the public school system for making "humanism...
...willingness to deliver. At times like these-around the release of Who Are You in 1978 and the death that year of Drummer Keith Moon at 32-a certain kind of frantic hopelessness sets in, and the fans respond with a terrible wounded fury, with their own dark suspicions that, as Townshend once wrote, "the song is over...