Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relevance, but I was under contract and had to turn out this ecology musical. Anyway, we had this character called Mother Earth. She was very dirty." Laughing, Rubins gestures with his hands to describe the character. "People would come to dump garbage on her. At the end, they decide to do something: they all sing a song, 'Gotta Clean Her Up.' I didn't even stay in Maine to direct...
...them students--chanted slogans outside the club while Ford addressed the Harvard Republicans within. Most of the demonstrators never saw Ford, who entered and left by a back door, but a splinter group of about 100 who had broken around to the back of the club chanted "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford," when the vice president's car flashed by. He waved. The remaining pickets blocked traffic in front of the club...
Pickled in Nostalgia. In the mean time, of course, photography has gone in other, less romantic directions, of which Adams is intolerant. "Whenever I see a picture of a garbage dump," he huffed to a reporter during a New York visit in 1972, "I am not the least bit moved. I have a garbage dump; I could take a photograph of my ash can that would be just as revolting as anything you can get here in Harlem." No won der Adams' ideas about his art seem quite pickled in nostalgia to a generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities...
...which holds that if anything can possibly go wrong, it will. Back in the early 1950s, a routine inventory revealed that a U.S. A-bomb was missing, and no amount of searching succeeded in locating it. As the military sweated, a senior officer happened to visit a dump on a military base. He strolled between piles of discarded A-bomb casings that were about to be offered for sale as scrap. There among the rejects he found the missing bomb...
...Monday's Dump Truck on the 1969 strike was, I thought, excellently written and, more important, a well-timed reminder. The '69 strike certainly should not be for gotten. But why insist on the contrast between the activism of the late sixties and the apathy and self-centeredness of the present, as in the article "Freshmen Know Little About Strike" in the same issue of The Crimson? Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times do enough of that, with their constant harping on streaking, pre-meds and apathy. True, these things exist, but the picture is not that simple...