Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boots in the back, in the guts, on the head, everywhere. I tried covering my head with my hands, then they kicked my hands. These kids were actually skipping around with excitement." In November, a gang 20 strong invaded a suburban party in Surrey, tore down a garden wall, wrecked furniture and sent eight guests to the hospital. Soccer games bring skinheads flocking, usually with weapons ranging from meathooks and carving forks to chisels and pipes. On a train returning from a match at Coventry, 300 skinheads nearly demolished the carriages; 60 were arrested. Nearly 100 were jailed after...
...Apple recording studios, the film concentrates heavily on Paul McCartney, so much so that the billing might be changed to "Let It Be, starring Paul McCartney and some other Beatles." There are flashes of John dancing with his wife Yoko Ono, and George and Ringo picking out Octopus Garden on guitar and piano, but most of the good footage belongs to Paul. He is the one who seems to be running the recording sessions, and he is surely the one who gets to sing-mostly in lingering closeups-all the great songs, like Let It Be and Get Back...
...popularity and urgency of the environmental issue, the garden-club members still worry that they have not shaken their old image. "I suppose," sighed one silver-haired delegate from Louisiana, "that they are going to call us all little old dowagers in tennis shoes, puttering around in our gardens." Said another: "They always used to call us petunia pickers. I wonder what they call...
...bare square outlined in red on the stage defined the Garden of Eden. There, a happy apple treeful of writhing serpents advised Eve to Do It, rather as if they were pushing pot. The discovery of sex gets staged as a sort of ballet of mass copulation. (Filmgoers can see the Open Theater perform roughly the same scene in Zabriskie Point...
Died. Clifford R. Hope, 76, longtime (1927-56) Republican Congressman from Kansas; following a series of strokes; in Garden City, Kans. As an articulate champion of the farmer, Hope was largely responsible for the passage of the Soil Erosion Act (1935), the Hope-Aiken price-support law (1948) and the Farm Credit...