Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIVE YEARS AGO Monday Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvador Allende Gossens. Five years ago today Nixon and, Kissinger chortled over the success of their best-laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...
FIVE YEARS AGO today Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvador Allende Gossens. Five years ago today Nixon and Kissinger chortled over the success of their best-laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...
...Giant fans, regarded as an endangered species likely to be spotted only on beaches, at discos and in therapy groups, are flocking to Candlestick Park, breaking all attendance records (1.3 million, nearly doubled since last year). Now they dance in the stadium after victory, howl for Dodger blood and scream their affection for a new-found love, Pitcher Vida Blue. "Bloo! Bloo! Bloo...
...century audience. Almost nobody in the audience got the humor in the repeated references (i.e. Horner's name) to horns, cuckolds and the like, which is not so much a comment on their ignorance as an example of the changes in humor over 300 years. Cuckold jokes were a scream in 1675, but they are an anachronism now. Moreover, words don't mean the same things now as they did then. When Sparkish calls Horner "the sign of a man" after a long discussion of the street signs in the neighborhood, he is referring to Horner's supposed sexual malady...
...Last of Sheila was almost the last of Cannon-for a while, anyway. Her private life was on the skids. After a grim 1969 divorce from Cary Grant and experiments with acid and mescaline, she tried all sorts of trendy emotional cures, including Esalen and primal-scream therapy. Cannon even installed a padded howling room in her Spanish-style home in Malibu. Eventually she decided to drop out of movies for a spell. "It used to be devastating for me to finish anything-the last five pages of a book, an affair or a film," she recalls...