Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST REMARKABLE, outside of the emotional fervor exhibited by many parents of school children were the lengths citizens all over Boston explored to avoid busing. One 60-year old Hyde Park resident with no schoolchildren filed suit to stop citywide busing "for health reasons." The exhaust fumes, she argued, endangered her health, and she was entitled to "equal protection." Francesca Galante, also of Hyde Park, who headed the Mass. Citizens against Forced Busing, had bused her children to private school years before, but insisted that officials were "trying to destroy our community" through forced busing. Over 500 Roslindale parents vowed...
SANDWICHED BETWEEN three paragraphs about a five year old boy who teaches fear-of-flying and sex therapy sessions and an interview with a paper-trained puppy that writes a weekly column for the Miami Herald (In His Own Words), People magazine tells us where Jerzy Kosinski hangs out: dingy streets, sex clubs, hospital operating rooms, and polo fields. I thought once that Jerzy Kosinski had the most fantastic and bizarre imagination of any American writer. Lurid episodes splatter his pages, rapes of village nymphs by jealous peasant women with rake handles and broken bottles and remote-control murders...
Instead of fighting it out at midfield, the two teams alternated furious offensive onslaughts that usually lasted for several minutes. The Crimson defense proved strong, and aggressive goalie Betty Ippolito ranged far out of the net to kick away loose balls. But the same old problem hampered the offense--it was unable to convert offensive pressure into goals...
...wild. In the same song, his nasal vocals are so strained his voice sounds like a parody of itself. The closest Dylan gets to his familiar tone is on the title track--the most political of the album's songs. But just when it sounds like the old Dylan, with angry lyrics about political ironies and human scum, Dylan starts singing about "slow train." Then you realize the slow train that's going to railroad all the sinners on Dylan's endless shit-list, is Jesus himself. He's going to fix us all, just as soon as the second...
...even the creakiest practitioner of the inverted-pyramid style of journalism will have to agree that behind the mannered realism of The Right Stuff thumps the heart of a traditionalist. The organizing principle of the book is an old-fashioned fascination with, and admiration for, the test pilots and fighter jocks of the U.S.'s first astronaut team: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. In addition, the book has a superhero, Chuck Yeager, a World War II combat veteran who broke the sound barrier in 1947 and rewrote aviation history...