Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HATFUL OF RAIN (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Sandy Dennis, Peter Falk, Michael Parks and Herschel Bernardi star in the TV version of Michael Gazzo's Broadway play about a drug addict's attempts to kick the habit...
...Citadel's six-mile wall, in darkened houses and inside the secondary wall of the imperial city. Enemy sharpshooters trained their scopes on the allies from Hué's highest spots; machine-gunners picked wide-angle vantage points; and mortar fire struck everywhere, like an infernal rain...
...lines are from Look to the Rain, and their author, 16-year-old Singer Janis Ian, says that they define "exactly where it's at. When I walk onstage, man, all I can give them is me." It is all that most of today's young singers in the folk groove can give. Traditional folk singers-including the modern figure of Bob Dylan-have usually been purveyors of a musical heritage, chroniclers of their time, protesters against injustice. But today's troubadours are turning away from protest. Their gaze is shifting from the world around them...
...have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against the real rain: the whining rockets and the mortars that come with no warning-just the awful cracking sound as they explode...
...next year. Now, it is the fall of next year. Snow turned to rain, to dirty tire-gray streams in the sidewalk ice. Then spring came slowly, stayed shortly. Commencement was not crisp and bright. The sky was thick and the ground was heavy. Then we lost them--the seniors--they disappeared in the witches' kettle of summer. We have not seen them since. And now it is the fall, and soggy leaves lie in the gutter like Corn Flakes left in the bowl too long...