Word: fuzzed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably no force could find more than lukewarm approval in the ghetto today?so deep are the enmities, so profound the suspicions of the fuzz or, sometimes, "Chuck,"* The very presence of cops in the slums, many Negro militants maintain, represents society's goal to protect the white man's property and suppress the black man's right...
...audience's suspension of disbelief for success. This time, disbelief is almost impossible to overcome, thanks to a clumsy script that features such antique devices as a shoe-banging Russian U.N. delegate, cliché-spouting admen and a sound track that plays The Dragnet Theme whenever the fuzz appear...
...hippies-were celebrating spring. Hardly had the equinoctial orgy begun, when it turned as bleak as a midwinter blizzard. A dozen youths scaled the information booth, ripped off the clock hands, scribbled graffiti and defiantly passed around lighted marijuana "joints" in full view of the Tactical Patrol Force. The fuzz charged, billy clubs flailing, and arrested 61 demonstrators. Battered but unbowed, the celebrants coursed off to the Central Park Sheep Meadow...
...combining a string quartet with his ensemble. And the other liberated spirits assembled by him have just as many odd new ideas as the leader. Coryell, who likes to incorporate the drone of amplifier feedback into his solos, is seeking new electronic effects such as "a very quiet fuzz tone that suggests a little radio turned up as far as it goes. I see a lot of beauty in distortion...
...getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling away," Howison said, "a bottle smashed a squad-car window." Then it began...