Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in 1973 I was an inner-city kid going to high school and as far as rock 'n' roll was concerned, I was bored. Then came the New York Dolls [Aug. 20]. They were all decked out in platform shoes and tacky glitter and they played with an energy I had never heard before. Their music was straight off the street, and I loved it. It's good to hear that David Johansen is keeping it alive...
Controversy has erupted over whether the city of Boston or the archdiocese will pay for the papal visit, especially for the 150-foot platform and altar to be constructed on Boston Common. Some Protestant groups and Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union officials have said that if the city pays for the entire visit, Boston will be violating the separation of church and state guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. The Boston City Council earlier this week debated whether to appropriate $150,000 for four platforms and a choir performance on the common...
...Gonzalez: "I don't think he has the temperament to care about little people, not the way Lyndon Johnson did." Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who testified as a character witness for Connally at his milk trial, wrote in her memoirs that she remembers how she was standing on a platform with him when word came of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and the Governor said, "Those who live by the sword die by the sword...
...begun to forget what Slimane was really like." Worse still, revolution is afoot in North Africa, and the local French officer orders her to go. Yet the poignancy of her leavetaking, with the young man running beside her departing train "until all at once there was no more platform," represents triumph as well as defeat. Sadness is possible where before there had been only indifference...
...turn came, I was escorted by two Ph.D's up to the platform. I climbed the steps. The diploma was handed to me. I was thinking of my family and how proud I knew they were. And I was so proud of them for all they had done to achieve this. Then, instead of congratulating me, Dr. [Warren E.] Wacker simply said, "Now John, if you'd only move a few steps to your left." It took me more than a moment to realize he was not talking about my physical position on the platform...