Word: riotously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's vague story starts at the peak of Freed's career, when he was spreading the rock gospel on New York radio and staging riotous live shows at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater. Much of the screenplay appears to be Hollywood fantasy. In his desire to pander to adolescents, Writer John Kaye has transformed his hero into a Christlike figure: kids grovel at the deejay's feet while rockhating adults hound him literally to his death. The real Freed, a self-destructive man who died at age 43 in 1965, is far more fascinating than Kaye...
Your daughter, your friend's daughter, and several million others. Girls-pre-teen, just-teen and a few lustfully maternal moms-have made Shaun Cassidy, 19, into a top-selling recording artist, a high-wattage TV personality, and the kind of turn-away concert star who can provoke riotous rites of weepy nubility every time he bats his well-turned lashes. Admits Shaun gamely: "Yes, it's a dirty job. But someone...
...Roman Catholic bastions of Bavaria, the riotous midwinter weeks of Fasching (from the German phrase "to pour from a barrel") serve roughly the same functions as carnival elsewhere in the Christian world. It is a season of merrymaking, mischiefing and fair-maidening begun by medieval Catholics who wanted to say a hearty "farewell to the flesh" (carne vale) before starting the Lenten regimen of fasting and penance on Ash Wednesday. In Munich, the capital of Fasching, the farewell involves a series of masquerades, formal balls and street parades, which lead to, among other effects, an increase in illegitimate births every...
Autumn is honest, it does not pretend to be heaven. Yet almost everybody recognizes that the season's character transcends those familiar bracing days, crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted skies, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and that riotous foliage that impels whole traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England (even though Columnist Russell Baker has reminded them that "if you've seen 1 billion leaves, you've seen them all"). What is not widely recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter...
...nature. The migrants from southern Europe and the Middle East who settled in Sweden are not resented because of their coloring. They are resented, even hated, for their way of living off welfare, for which the home-grown Swede is highly taxed. The people you refer to as irresponsible, riotous hooligans are merely young patriots who wish to keep Sweden Swedish, and for this they should not be rebuked. This is not being racist...