Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the turn of the century, Alaska's seat of government has been the old gold-rush town of Juneau (pop. 16,400). Situated far down the clawlike panhandle that Alaskans call Southeastern, Juneau is so distant from Alaska's geographic or population centers that its clocks run two hours ahead of those in Anchorage, the state's major city (pop. 161,600). Surrounded by water on one side and awesome glaciers on the other, Juneau is accessible only by boat or plane; frequent rains and fog and surrounding lofty mountains often make landings a pilot...
...most Australians, the campaign was little more than a distraction from the annual Christmas rush-in part because it seemed to be getting almost as regular. For the fourth time in five years -a pace that left many voters wishing that political leaders would go back to serving out their three-year mandates -the people were being called on to elect a national government. Furthermore, the electorate was doubtful whether the complex economic problems on which the campaign centered could be quickly solved by either of the major candidates, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his immediate predecessor, Gough Whitlam...
Those who find inner peace listening to Dead music will rush away on this film, for it features the group at its performing best. Rumor has it that the Dead have never given a poor performance, and this film seems to legitimate that claim. Some of the best tunes--"Sugar Magnolia," "Playin' in the Band," "U.S. Blues," and the immortal "One More Saturday Night," are included in the film...
...rush to determinate judgment is being led by an unlikely alliance: inmate groups, various academics and law-and-order conservatives. Since California embraced the indeterminate sentence in 1917, prisoners have increasingly chafed under what they see as the arbitrariness of parole authorities. Soledad Brother George Jackson, for example, was held in prison eleven years for a $70 gas station robbery because, his partisans said, he refused to soft pedal political militancy...
...defendant called it a bum rap. Yes, he had fondled the buttocks of a woman, without her consent, on a rush-hour New York subway car. But no, it could not be considered sexual abuse. His argument: state legal precedent on sexual abuse lists "breast" and "genital areas" as private parts, but excludes the buttocks...