Word: ribaldly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrayed against the impressive show of official strength will be, if plans jell, one of the oddest, least cohesive armies in history-an uncoordinated alliance of hippies, yippies, antiwar militants, unhappy liberals and far-out radicals. Goals vary from outright disruption of the convention proceedings to a ribald mockery of the electoral system. The yippies (members of the Youth International Party) plan to nominate a 220-Ib. pig, Pigasus, for President, on a platform of garbage-"just like the platform of all the other parties." Groups led by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet...
PETULIA. Julie Christie and George C. Scott get top billing in this ribald, ricocheting Richard Lester film of a love affair between a crusty, cutup doctor and a flouncy, flipped-out wife; the film's biggest star, however, remains the compelling city of San Francisco...
PETULIA. Julie Christie and George C. Scott get top billing in this ribald, ricocheting Richard Lester film of a love affair between a crusty, cutup doctor and a flouncy, flipped-out wife; the film's biggest star, however, remains the compelling city of San Francisco...
...established order at interminable meetings, but failed to agree on what should replace it. At the Sorbonne, the 700-year-old heart of the University of Paris and the hub of the previous week's violence, bearded youths and miniskirted coeds sat in the courtyard singing occasional ribald songs against the Gaullist government. Now and then a jazz band struck up a tune or a pianist played an instrument dragged from an auditorium. With no police around, students even donned helmets and directed traffic on the Left Bank...
...most stylish and original satirists. Indeed, Barthelme tucks into these stories his own credo and best definition. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," says one fractured soul. And elsewhere: "Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole...