Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointment of Frank Frisoli '35 as permanent Superintendent of the Cambridge City Schools was again deferred last night in another raucous session of the Cambridge School Committee...
...purpose. Joe turns on a chorus line of ladies, gentlemen and hermaphrodites. Alas, Joe himself turns on solely for heroin; he is impotent. Among those he unfulfills: a go-go dancer (Geri Miller), a sex-parched housewife (Andrea Feld-man), and last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from...
...relative normality. The military front remained quiescent. U.S. battle deaths dropped to 52 for the past week, the lowest toll in 4½ years. The cities were also peaceful. President Nguyen Van Thieu has defused chronic student protest by releasing jailed students. He also succeeded in mollifying the raucous disabled war veterans, who roll to their riots in wheelchairs, by granting them more liberal benefits...
...arrests for pot possession and sale in 1969.) It was all part of a typical week in what sometimes seems to be the true class warfare: the strain between the young and the old. In Massachusetts, on the Cambridge Common last week, for example, 100 white youths staged a raucous celebration of Black Panther Huey Newton's release from prison. Police ended the party with tear gas. In Oklahoma, hundreds tried to attend a banned rock festival in Turner Falls Park. Worried about "drugs, nudity, free love and lawlessness," Governor Dewey Bartlett blocked the kids with 300 National Guardsmen...
When the results were in at his election-night headquarters, Wallace was his cocky old self as raucous rebel yells greeted his joyful summation: "Alabama still keeps her place in the sun, and Alabama will continue to be heard from." Translated, he meant that George Corley Wallace still enjoys political fair weather and expects to be anew the irrepressible voice of Alabama...