Word: riot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days. Airport cafes and bars ran low on food and drink. Pharmacies had a run on inflatable cushions. Telephone coin boxes became so full that they jammed. At one point, Royal Air Maroc canceled flights. Angry passengers charged its offices at Orly and had to be restrained by riot police, who later took up positions to protect other airline ticket counters. Finally, bars were banned from serving liquor. Complained Frank North of Portland, Ore.: "The people at the counters won't even tell me what time the planes might leave. If I knew that, I could at least...
...special mainly because it's in South Jamaica, a not-so-quietly festering black ghetto in the borough of Queens, the borough that is supposed to have only Archie Bunkers and no ghettoes. South Jamaica is a singularly depressing place, famous as the home of the Friday Night Riot--the one that starts up every Friday in the summer at 9 p.m. sharp, the one that the storekeepers learn to set their watches by before they finally decide to sell out and leave for good, the one that you rarely read about in the newspapers because nobody ever gets killed...
...contemplate how little imagination has gone into this effort. The rudimentary plot is set forth in a gee-whiz script that stops at nothing, including the invocation of prayers, in its pursuit of the cornball. The obligatory beach-riot scene is a crude recapitulation of the one staged by Spielberg three years ago. Instead of presenting fleshed-out characters (and actors like Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss to play them), Jaws 2 is largely populated by nubile teenagers who appear to be graduates of the Mickey Mouse Club of Dramatic Arts. When these kids meet their unsavory fates, one feels...
...bleeding hearts, these. They pointed to the many slum dwellers who did not riot as proof that those who vented their anger in violence were somehow deviant and could be somehow fixed or cured. The doctors' blind faith in a simplistic biological approach was incredible. Their statement conjures up an image of teams of white-coated neurosurgeons descending on America's ghettos, intent on weeding out those with faulty brains and patching up their neurological circuitry. Fortunately, the physicians' suggestions never got far beyond the theoretical stage, although in 1970 Mark and Ervin did come out with a semi-popular...
...will need to watch the ARVN soldiers dangling from beneath helicopters on the retreat from Laos the way we did, watch G.I. s smoking dope in the barrels of M-16 s. He'll need to see the expressions on the children's faces as the cops in riot gear bash their friends. And to understand Richard Nixon, he'll have to study that damned upper lip and hear him say, "We could pull out--but that would be the easy way." Good night, Dick...