Word: jumpin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major positions open to athletes in professional sports, the annual turn over is low, and a black child has less than one chance in 1,000 of becoming a pro. "Unfortunately," Ashe wrote, "our most widely recognized role models are athletes and entertainers-'runnin'' and 'jumpin'' and 'singin'' and 'dancin'.' While we are 60% of the National Basketball Association, we are less than 4% of the doctors and lawyers ... less than 2% of the engineers ... less than 11% of construction workers...
Gerald Ford and the Corporate State. Unless his agents cancel, Jumpin' Gerry plans to spend part of his time next week waiting for Tricky Dick to disappear by speaking to a respectful audience of Harvard Young Republicans. The concert should include some of his all-time imperialist hits, including "I Am a Simple Man," "I've Got a Name," "The Ballad of the Green Berets," and "I'm Sitting On Top of the World." You can be part of the demonstration that shows Ford that the people have a better idea, such as ending racism at home and cutting...
...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...
...into another, undifferentiated wave of sound coming at the stage from the hall -the noise of thousands of kids in vicarious heat. Where these two walls of energy meet, above the stage and its blindly waving fringe of teeny-bopper arms, they precipitate a form. It is Mick Jagger, Jumpin' Jack Flash in person, laced into a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and painted like a Babylonian hooker, back-lighted by amber spots and front-lighted by a Mylar mirror the size of a movie screen slung from the roof trusses, belting into the chorus...
...Jumpin' Jack Flash...