Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Sclizer's Humanities 105 production deserves high praise for scorning the tactile orgies, eruptions of radical pathologies, raucous vocal distortion, audience involvement (read intimidation), gymnastic runaways, and fatuous political irrigation's which have afflicted numerous productions this year. We got through without bluejeans, mad scenes, copulation, fashionable violence, obscenity, and references to Bobby Seale. The words are the play (any play) and Seltzer gave us the words with acceptable cuts and no Grotowski exercises or similarly insulting polemical interment. Give me the words and allow me to decide what I am experiencing...
...Presumably because of some nudity and some rather raucous language, Jack Valenti's industry watchdogs have awarded Woodstock an R rating. Besides giving the whole thing a slightly salacious air, this means in effect that many young people who attended the festival cannot go to the movie without their parents...
...unions to the brink of revolt. "Those bastards took little enough time to vote themselves a 41% pay increase," said a postal worker. "Why should they take longer to give us 8%?" Stamping their feet and clapping their hands, members of Branch 36 broke up their December meeting with raucous cries of "Strike! Strike!" Their mood frightened union officials. "We were no longer in control," said Executive Vice President Herman Sandbank...
...those criteria, he judged tick . . . tick . . . tick, a movie about a black man who gets elected sheriff of a Southern town, superior to Putney Swope, a raucous but innovative film about a black man who takes over a white ad agency. "I know that is heresy," he wrote. "I know Putney Swope is the currently fashionable put-down of the Establishment. I know . . . but just the same, you should have been there in the Roosevelt Theater Saturday night. There wasn't an empty seat. The audience accepted tick . . . tick . . . tick with joy, laughter and applause. And the laughter...
...When the presence of Dow Chemical interviewers on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus led to raucous protests, the school suspended ten students under a regulation that prohibited misconduct. Judge Doyle struck down the rule, holding that the standard of "misconduct" alone was unconstitutionally vague. "The facts of life," he said, "have long undermined the concepts, such as in loco parent is, that have been invoked historically for conferring upon university authorities virtually limitless disciplinary discretion." His decision was upheld on appeal. - At the Oshkosh campus of Wisconsin...