Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within such brackets of past and future, the United States will celebrate its 200th anniversary this weekend-a culminating moment of raucous blowout compounded of Disneyland pageantry and kitsch, perfervid oratory, sentiment and sentimentality, dissent, 10,000 miles of bunting, phalanxes of politicians and majorettes in a din of John Philip Sousa brass, and tons of fireworks splashing in the dazzled night...
...Hendrix; not even Dylan or the Grateful Dead--rock in Bicentennial-weekend Boston breathes only a low whisper compared to the raucous shouting of the weeks to come when Tull and the Starship are to appear. But you can go hear...
Nobody fainted, and nobody threw jelly beans the way they did in the old days of Beatlemania. Still, when ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 33, Wife Linda and his band Wings tuned up at Fort Worth, the opening stop of a seven-week tour of the States, the reception was raucous rock 'n' roll. For his first U.S. performance in a decade, McCartney offered a few golden oldies from his songwriting days with John Lennon, and more than two-dozen works that he has recorded with Wings since the Beatles disbanded six years ago. It was McCartney, as much...
Stay Hungry is raucous, inventive and enterprising; it is also disheveled and dishonest. Rafelson presents Craig's peers as dissipated, insensate boors, and his family as a tribe of implacable snobs...
...women are working quietly on changing society, working for equal opportunity laws and welfare rights for unmarried mothers. "Women have moved out into very committed smaller nuclei, organizing through the community in which they live, in health care, schools, and so forth," she says. "They're not as raucous as they used to be, they're not doing anything the media could really pick up on. But at least they're presenting their material with a political perspective," she says. "And more and more women are going into professions, into law school and medicine; and when I was growing...