Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood was gone, and shortly after the Raelettes had come on stage, a quarrelsome drunk began to heckle Charles from the front of the pit. Visibly annoyed at last, Charles stopped and let the drunk talk while the crowd grew angrier and angrier. Someone in the back yelled "shut up, asshole!", the noise subsided long enough for a brief set, and Charles left hurriedly...
...from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the Now Left made up of students and-I am sorry to acknowledge-also of some faculty who for reasons not quite clear to me would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down...
...might not graduate." Whites taking over a previously black school in Thibodaux, La., promptly painted over murals that showed Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. And whites continue to treat blacks with condescension. Greenville School Superintendent Thompson says desegregation will work only if the blacks "keep their mouths shut and don't get pushy." Otherwise, says Thompson, he will "inherit an empty shell...
...best of The People Next Door is the brilliant, low-key camera work of Gordon Willis, whose fine eye for color and composition enlivened other moribund exercises, like End of the Road and The Landlord. Perhaps Willis, instead of investing such care in this project, might better have shut off all the lights on the set and left The People Next Door, with its author, in total darkness...
...wells spewed up to 1,000 bbl. a day of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a 50-sq.-mi. slick. The Government accused Chevron, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California, of failing to install legally mandatory storm chokes and other safety gear that would have shut off the wells when the platform exploded. Last week, in U.S. district court in New Orleans, Chevron pleaded no contest to the charges. The fine was $1,000,000-the largest penalty for polluting ever imposed on an American company by a court...