Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read "Stop fooling us, Yankee dogs!" and "Go home, white monkeys!" The mob shouted not only for immediate removal of all U.S. military bases but also for things clearly beyond U.S. control, including an increase in the minimum wage (currently $1 a day for industrial workers). Then a soft rain began to fall, and the demonstrators, mindful of their frilly barong tagalog shirts, hastily dispersed...
...Heavy rain had fallen during the night, but Sunday dawned crisp and clear for the dedication of the new brick Christian Union Baptist Church on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss. Nearly 400 people were on hand for the ceremony, which was a landmark in the religious history of the South. Christian Union, a Negro church set afire by white extremists last July, was rebuilt with the help of an interracial group of Mississippians who call themselves the Committee of Concern...
...Baby the Rain Must Fall is a synthetic little Southern drama, all fancied up with yokel color and art-film flourish. The folksiness carries over from Scenarist Horton Foote's Broadway and TV play, The Traveling Lady. The flourishes must be charged to Producer Alan Pakula and Director Robert Mulligan who were teamed more happily in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Love with the Proper Stranger...
...Most of Rain's inaction takes place smack-dab in Columbus, Texas, where Georgette (Lee Remick) toils as a carhop at the Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide...
Stained glass windows are the Holy Scriptures because they shut out wind and rain; and since their brilliance lets the splendor of the True Light pass into the church, they enlighten those inside...