Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe was interested in Latin America. Last week President Ford uncorked a new version of the old policy, enunciating what might be called the Ford Doctrine. Angry over Premier Fidel Castro's decision last December to dispatch Cuban troops to Angola, Ford denounced Castro as an "international outlaw" before a group of Cubans in Miami just about to receive their U.S. citizenship (and thus become potential voters), and said that the U.S. would take "appropriate action" against Castro if he intervened anywhere in the Western Hemisphere...
...reason for the campaign is that on June 8 Californians will go to the polls not only to choose among presidential candidates but to vote on a nuclear referendum. Proposition 15 on the ballot is not, as some opponents have charged, a proposal to outlaw nuclear power plants. Yet, if enacted, the measure could accomplish exactly that. The California initiative would ban the construction of 28 new plants planned for the state over the next two decades unless they met stringent safety standards and won approval by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state's legislature...
...pleased, and the less well off could, if they were clever enough, raise any amount of money and promise their benefactors anonymity. In 1907, Congress enacted a ban on corporate giving, but this proscription was often blithely and safely ignored. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 continued to outlaw corporate contributions, tried to make candidates report what they had spent and started a feeble attempt to set up some spending limitations. One fact reveals the law's in effectiveness: no member of Congress was ever punished for breaking...
Joey follows directly from the tradition of Dylan songs epitomized by John Wesley Harding: the title song, on first appearance, seems to be simply another tribute to the myth of the "outlaw-hero". A closer listening, though, reveals that all of the traditionally apothesized qualities of the outlaw have been either turned on their head--"he travelled with a gun in every hand", "with his lady by his side he took a stand" (what self-respecting outlaw would make his stand with his lady by his side?); or else cloaked in puzzling ambiguity--"he was never known to make...
...might have been. It is just not as good as it quite easily could have been. Hepburn is doing her doughty spinster turn, than which there is none finer, and Wayne is doing his crotchety old reprobate number, than which ditto. They meet after an outlaw gang he is pursuing pauses long enough on its way to a gold robbery to murder her father, a missionary to an Indian village. Nothing will do, of course, but that she must join forces with Rooster in order to help avenge her father's death. The pair quarrel along a meandering trail...