Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nostrils, as though I'm in some refuge for rare neurotics." The poet allows himself an awareness of the social climate only through the screen of his own detachment. On a New Year's Eve in Athens he is appalled by the chaos and aimlessness of a raucous crowd; yet he writes as though the lack of coherence that plagues these men and women were fated--a component of the national dissolution cast in iron by the Furies. His strange passivity in the face of political turmoil defies reality, turning slogans into stage props and demonstrators into actors...
...Performance Center lived a short but flashy life. The Spaghetti Emporium, resurrected as the Emporium Cafe, has gone under for the second time. But through it all. Charlie's Place has managed to hold on to reasonably good entertainment, an interesting if sometimes raucous atmosphere, a good place to go to have a beer and a lunch platter...
...Harvard fan is also part of the throng that invaded the Boston subways returning from the Crimson's dramatic victory over Boston University in the Beanpot tourney at the Garden--the raucous mob that rocked the train with shouts of "We're Number One" and loud, though not tuned, versions of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
...movie, which is raucous and engagingly empty-headed, has mostly to do with this fractured gang taking it on the lam. They drive around back-country California thwarting attempts by the local constabulary to bring them to justice. Over a dozen police vehicles are put out of commission during the rigors of the pursuit, but no cop ever gets hurt. This lends the movie a trace of the fabulous, like some sort of STP fairy tale. For the trio, however, the moral is finally brutal and predictable...
...first, parents reviled The Beatles for their monstrously long hair and their raucous music. "The British Invasion," costumed in Carnaby Street rags, was undermining the taste and morals of their children. But The Beatles weren't a passing fancy that would go away. As new groups tried to sell acid rock and noise, The Beatles became, well, acceptable. "They weren't greasy like the motorcycle bunch of the '50 s," says one fan, "and they weren't slick like Bowie or Alice Cooper are now. The Beatles were nice--you could've brought one home to your parents." Today, orchestrations...