Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat subdued out of sympathy for the antiwar demonstrations in Washington. Some artists left town to join the protesters; others hung out black crape along with festive streamers; and Dancer Yvonne Rainer led a solemn death march through the streets. Nevertheless, thousands of visitors trudged up and down endless flights of stairs to see paintings, sprayed-water "street sculptures," light shows and dramatic performances that ranged from the inspired to the inane. Above all, they saw evidence of the hard work and ingenuity that have transformed 40 blocks of bleak, empty spaces into home, work space and playground...
...Samantha in Aurora, Illinois," Hagmann says. "I want people to say, That's just like my kids.' " If Sam and Samantha say anything of the sort, it will be because their kids have taken up campus revolution for no more discernible reasons than sex and excitement. Despite endless minutes of sirens, screams, clubs and tear gas at the finale, Strawberry Statement only manages to make the point that Americans can make musical comedy of anything, including youthful dissent. The shallowness of the movie became all the more obvious when newspapers carried photographs of the killings at Kent State...
Calvert's new broom has also swept aside a number of nonacademic traditions, such as freshman hazing. No longer do upperclassmen make a plebe stand at attention and jab at his breastbone until he passes out; gone are the impromptu push-ups and relay races through the endless corridors of the middie dormitory, Bancroft Hall. Plebes are still made to perform menial tasks for upperclassmen, but Calvert firmly maintains that harassment and degradation will not produce respect for authority...
...week long they bobbed and drifted with the slow currents of the Mekong River, a seemingly endless procession of floating death. They appeared singly at first, then in grotesque flotillas of as many as 50 bodies bound together by rope. After days of immersion in the brown waters of the Mekong and exposure to Cambodia's blazing sun, they were barely recognizable, but it was clear that the victims, mostly young men, were Vietnamese. They were slaughtered in what has suddenly turned into Southeast Asia's latest horror: a Cambodian pogrom against the country...
...trail of bodies in the Mekong added a particularly grisly new dimension to the war in Indochina. Other events through the week appeared to presage a widening of that seemingly endless conflict. The new government of Cambodian Premier General Lon Nol, reeling under widespread Communist border attacks, issued a plea to the world for military aid. In South Viet Nam, the Communists intensified their rocket attacks as part of a spring campaign that may peak about May 19, Ho Chi Minh's birthday. For a moment, however, there was the flickering hope of a diplomatic breakthrough...