Word: heyday
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While Strummer seems to have mellowed since punk’s heyday, Streetcore remains, at heart, not all that different from anything The Clash released. He continues to struggle with themes of social responsibility and equality. And the combination of folk, reggae and punk that permeates the album can be traced all the way back to “Police and Thieves...
...neighboring Colombia, whose gratuitous violence and narco-wealth have made them a mafia in rebel fatigues. A farc-Shining Path merger is the last thing South America's economically beleaguered Andes region needs. In the Lima shantytown of Raucana - the only community Shining Path ever built in its bloody heyday - shopkeepers like Maria are now afraid to even talk about the group. The Shining Path, she insists, "are still watching...
...Both sides fought the Japanese who attacked China in 1937, before resuming their civil war once Japan had been beaten. Madame Chiang's heyday came during World War II, when she came to the U.S. as her husband's spokesman and made a rousing address to the U.S. Congress appealing for help against the Japanese. A charismatic intellectual who challenged traditional ideas of silent and subservient Chinese women, she took a leading role in nationalist politics, running Chiang's air force at one point. As icons of Western-friendly modernity and of unbending resistance to the excesses of Maoism, Madame...
...Quad, residents, particularly male athletes who had been relocated to the Quad to rectify the gender imbalance in the early 1970s , demanded equality with the river houses. Once-a-day shuttle service was introduced in 1973, and the QRAC was built in 1978. But the Quad’s heyday as a bohemian haven ended with the controversial Fox Plan of 1977, which introduced a ‘limited choice’ system by which students could list their top three residential choices. Then-Dean of the College John B. Fox ’59 instituted the plan in order...
Although this look has already returned once since its 80s heyday, it desperately needs to stick around for good. There is nothing sexier than a successful woman who looks like a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker...