Word: malle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, most of those people, a remarkable number of whom were festooned with Minolta cameras and crowned with Sony Walkman headsets, must have had doubts. Protest is an industry, organized, priced, packaged and advertised, for maximum impact, on the Capitol Mall. Since the rhetoric of campaign politics portrays the President-to-be as a supercolossal wizard for everything that anybody ever wanted, it is logical that the protest industry should focus blame on him for everything that anybody couldn...
...many Americans, it remains one of the incandescent moments in living memory. Facing a throng of 250,000 on the capital Mall, with the Washington Monument soaring before him and the white marble figure of Abraham Lincoln brooding behind him, Martin Luther King Jr. turned mere spectacle into a kind of national epiphany. "I have a dream today," he declared. And again, "I have a dream today." And again. He used the words as more than refrain, more than cadence, almost as biblical exhortation. And as his listeners cheered him more loudly each time he repeated them, King built toward...
...once one of King's closest aides and now represents the city in Congress. The official welcome was delivered by Mayor Marion Barry, and march security was directed by Police Chief Maurice Turner, both blacks. Says Turner, who in 1963 worked a twelve-hour shift on the Mall as an ordinary patrolman: "When people get teed off, they want to march, they go to the nation's capital. This is not new for us." Indeed, although the first March on Washington attracted the biggest crowd ever assembled in the city up to that time, it has since been...
...being alive." People go to abnormal lengths to evade it. But booze and drugs only postpone unhappiness, and possessions do no better. In Anna, an impoverished young man robs a drugstore and gets away wiih a little more than $2,000. He takes his wife to a local mall for a shopping binge: color TV, stereo, albums, vacuum cleaner. Later, the money almost gone, he regrets not stealing some drugs for resale as well as the money. His wife says: "There's too much to get. There's no way we could ever get it all." He replies...
...have hoped for in a July 4th, and more. While the Interior Secretary watched from the roof of his offices a few hundred yards away, his celebrated choice for the capital's Independence Day concert, Wayne Newton, 41, hauled his sequined Las Vegas act out onto the Washington Mall. (One local radio station suggested that a two-drink minimum be imposed to make the entertainer feel more at home.) Doffing a headdress that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with his own version...