Word: revelations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilization claws itself back to life." The blue and white Scottish flag is increasingly flown. The Drybrough brewery prints the flag on its export cans, while the brewer of Tennent's lager pushes the slogan: "It's good ... It's satisfying ... It's Scottish." Scots revel in the fact that the country's soccer team qualified for the World Cup final this year while England...
...voices strong-of adulation, welcome and animal joy. He warmed up with a leisurely bit of improvisation called Approaching Contusion, then swung into some of his most famous hits: Superwoman, Superstition, Keep on Running. It was fine to hear a voice so long addicted to sweet soul now revel in husky, emotive blues growls. The pulsating climax came with an almost symphonic version of his Living for the City, a black odyssey that begins in Mississippi and ends with the arrest of an innocent youth in New York...
...fact, Mulliken says, the correspondents revel in their bondage...
Most of us were refreshed when the naive American movie myths were gradually revised in the '60's. In Sam Peckinpah's and Arthur Penn's films all social forces were culpable; villains sometimes wore badges and good men could revel in crime. But the mass imitators have not borrowed anything from these men except a violent surface, and have based the content of their films on empty hybrid genres like the spaghetti western. Our movie screens are now replete with dizzying, blood-soaked chaos, apocalyptic visions produced on an assembly-line...
...farm. The watering spots marked with white flags are almost always the social centers in these rugged mountainside communities. In fact, one can almost go so far as to say that chicha is the lubricant of the nation, loosening Bolivian mouths and minds into an animated, sometimes raucous revel...