Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows Richards has smoked enough ganja to earn his dreadlocks. But reggae is an indigenous form. Richards grew up in Kent, not Kingston, and his reggae, though technically admirable, is obviously affected. Add to this the suspicion that Richards, who tends to self-pity, is trying to identify his fiasco in Canada with the dilemma of Cliff and other reggae artists...
...After a run of a hundred years or so," wrote one of America's leading architecture critics, Peter Blake, in his belligerent text Form Follows Fiasco (1977), "Modern Dogma is worn out. We are now close to the end of one epoch, and well be fore the start of a new one. During this period of transition there will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace...
...weekend's second annual U.S.A. Women's International Swimming Competition was over, however, a perky group of U.S. teenagers, undaunted by the absence of some of their speediest countrywomen because of suspension by the Amateur Athletic Union (see page three), managed to avoid a repeat of the 1976 Montreal fiasco and provide a semblance of respectability to the American effort...
...person who emerges unscathed from the fiasco is Ann-Margret...
...were cut down by rebels firing captured Communist artillery. Ethiopian Strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had vowed to crush the rebels by Sept. 12, the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor Haile Selassie, ordered the execution of 700 officers and men he held responsible for the fiasco...