Word: died
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angry, baiting confessional stashed inside a catchy pop threnody. Flamingo Road is a place where many of Johansen's obsessions - fashion, high romance, lowlife - all meet and rebound off one another until they form dead ends. Flamingo Road is the street where love is lost and where dreams die. It is probably off somewhere on the far side of Swaheto. You will never find it in Miami Beach. - Jay Cocks
When the old wolves know they are about to die, they sneak back into the woods and find their territory, the land that is especially theirs. To find my bed, I coped with an elevator wall, and the carpeted interior of my dormitory which made loud noises when I walked upon it. The walls of my room swirled around and around, dilating and breathing, their bright colors and strange poster faces lulling my consciousness--the face of Jim Morrison peered in on me from an album cover, still and refracted, inviting me to his morbid dance with a grim smile...
Sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston (where shivering indoor frigidity became a mark of status) could never have mushroomed so prosperously without air conditioning; some communities-Las Vegas in the Nevada desert and Lake Havasu City on the Arizona-California border-would shrivel and die overnight if it were turned...
...came to the island dressed im men's clothing, and managed to reach his cell before being discovered. Fighting her way out, she unfortunately killed her husband when the pistol she was carrying exploded. But her ill luck was not quite through. Prison authorities ordained that she must die, and so she did, but before she hung she made one request--that she be allowed to meet her maker in women's clothes. A black dress, last used by the lonesome troops for some ribald vaudeville,was found, and in it she died. But her story is only just beginning...
...Chicano uprising in L.A. But neither will the calculated "uni-tone" of Time magazine or the caution--sometimes necessary but not always illuminating--of "objective" journalism. The Great Shark Hunt ensures that the "bad craziness" that a lot of people would like to forget will be preserved, and not die on the trash heaps of Rolling Stone's disintegrating bound volumes...