Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HORDES THAT fill the sticky, smok Astor theater to see Jimi Plays Berkeley are rock concert crowds. They shout to friends in the balcony and stomp their feet impatiently. And when the house lights dim--after the usual delay peculiar to rock concerts--matches flare and shoulders hunch throughout the theater. Excited, they sit back to let the Jimi Hendrix Experience wash over them...
...Left dilemma was posed anew by the military takeover in Chile. As the dictatorship fastens its hold on the country, as the generals with the sunglasses issue orders for more executions, the debate that has divided the Chilean Left in recent years will flare up once again on a world scale, just as it has so many times before in this century...
...skydiver plummetted. It seemed that his parachute opened a little early, and he drifted over the field. He seemed to be whirling curiously around on his straps, and he landed over a clump of trees behind the stage. Later, three skydivers jumped amidst the lightning with three red flares held in their hands. The next day, the newspapers reported one of the skydivers had been killed, burned to a crisp by his flare before he hit the ground. The only one who seemed out of control, like a dead weight, was the first diver. But by the time...
...each team concentrating on a particularly active gang and trying to get close enough to the gang's leaders to sense when real trouble is brewing. "We turn the block every half-hour," explained one Gang Control officer, but "it only takes a few seconds to start a flare-up." The city has made one attempt to rid the gangs of their guns by offering a moratorium on weapons' arrests-but the attempt failed dismally. The teen-agers simply did not believe the offer was honest. "As soon as you walk in the door," said one leader, "they...
...tell it, all the real Activism has gone out of Harvard Square. Four years ago the Square was practically mad with New Left Happening: its street corners busy with politicos pamphleteering, its restaurants busy with politicos planning, its street life rich with political street theater. Sporadically, its Action would flare up in virtually all forms of street fighting, in everything from noisy portest to out and out rioting. Nobody is really sure where that old Activism disappeared to, and nobody really wants to believe that it died somewhere. You still heat talk about the Revolution. But the air just...