Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence. The best parts of the book are about just that. Some anecdotes are buried in Cowan's tortured prose. He describes one scene in "Born Innocent," the show about a girl's reform school. Linda Blair is thrown to the floor of the shower room and "raped" with the long wooden handle of a Jonny mop. (At a screening for NBC executives, one was so pleased that he murmured, "This is great stuff.") The network executives changed their minds a month later after a nine-year-old girl was raped with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach...
...concert combine musical and extra-musical elements--Bowie wheeling around to release an arresting snarl, Mitchell picking up his clarinet to play a single note, Jarman filling out the harmony of an ornate fanfare by putting two saxophones to his lips at once. Great Black Music has room for all this and more...
...anecdotes, Bok related how, as dean of the Law School, he was spirited off at 2 a.m. to meet with three student radicals--all wearing sunglasses and berets--in a dimly-lit room. Bok said they slid him a piece of paper--which would sign the recruiting powers--and ordered him, "Sign here...
...broke loose and managed to get Robin back to their hotel, where police threatened to arrest him and tried to get Jean to sign a statement accusing her husband of drunken and disorderly conduct. She refused, and the couple eventually were allowed to return to their room. Robin was unconscious for much of the night, trembling violently and vomiting. The next day he was well enough to travel, and the couple returned to Moscow...
Soviets rejected the protest and, according to Tass, charged that Knight started a drunken brawl and later concocted the story about his wife being molested. The Soviets, meanwhile, lodged a protest of their own, accusing Peter Harm, Moscow correspondent of Business Week, of vandalizing his hotel room in Ashkhabad two months ago. Hann denied the charge...