Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial call to police indicated that the men had guns, but that turned out to be untrue, said one Harvard police officer on the scene...
...scene is South Central Los Angeles, but it could as easily be Detroit, Grand Rapids or Kansas City. A young white male driving a 1989 Thunderbird slowly circles one of the worst blocks in the city. He nods toward a group of blacks hanging out at a corner. As his smartly dressed date whirs up her electric window, a clamoring pack of drug dealers surrounds the car. Money is hastily exchanged for a tiny cellophane bag of off-white crystals. The car peels away, fleeing the inner city, headed toward suburban safety. But the driver of the Thunderbird, his supply...
...dead. Now it is the Republic of Hungary, an independent state with plans to hold multiparty elections. When speakers mentioned the U.S., the crowd cheered; for the Soviet Union, there were jeers. But along with shouts of "Russians, go home!," there were chants for the man who made the scene possible: "Gorby! Gorby! Gorby...
...American Scene...
...scene is the Sierra Club International Assembly in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the players are Bill Oliver and Glen Waldeck, the poets of preservation and the unofficial troubadours of the U.S. environment movement. All across the country, at conferences and campfires and on campuses, the two minstrels denounce development and pollution and plead for the rescue of endangered animals. Their music never hits the Top 40, but many a member of the Sierra Club or the National Audubon Society can hum their tunes and recite their lyrics by heart. To thousands of nature lovers, Oliver and Waldeck are to environmentalism...