Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while these idiotic white characters (one professed to see no difference between jazz and rock 'n' roll) try to shoot holes through Bland's thesis with questions directed only at his strongest contentions--such as whether "Negroes" have actually suffered--they never press the musicians to explain why some lower class oppressed white or other minorities aren't producing jazz as prolifically as blacks...
...Peking's splendidly decorated parks, acrobats, singers and dancers performed for the crowds. There were spectacular fireworks, the ever-popular lion dance, and elaborate fairground games. At one game, youngsters could take part in simulated shoot-downs of enemy aircraft; at another, engineering students could test their skills at a mock-up oil-drilling station. If they correctly manipulated the levers and buttons, a dark liquid gushed into...
...Johnson's boyhood fear of being a sissy and backing down (which she sees expressed in his Viet Nam policy) reflected the code of the Old West, which shaped his mind, and also various tests for manliness imposed by his father. Johnson talked of his youthful reluctance to shoot animals and how, when hectored by his father, he finally shot a rabbit between the eyes, dropped the carcass at his father's feet, then went to the bathroom and threw up. Later. Kearns points out, L.B.J. would mercilessly badger such visitors to the ranch as John Kennedy...
McCurdy, however, isn't totally pessimistic. "Keefe, our own version of an Irish star, will do a good job," he said. "We have nothing to lose, so we'll go out there and shoot the works...
...Freddie down for a serious conversation and he coasts along, heavy-lidded eyes at half mast, his parabolic mustache drooping below his mouth. But put him in front of an audience and he comes alive: his lids shoot up like window blinds letting the sun in, and his mustache dances expressively around his face. He cannot even stay quiet during breaks in the taping of his show. During a production delay, Freddie entertained the audience, with a burst of pent-up one-liners. "This is a minority show," he announced. "The next minority to get its own show will probably...