Word: simmers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Becaus0e the Night" marked the end of Patti Punk, a performer whose appeal was strong but limited. It marked the end of her raw scream-and-simmer tactics at the microphone too, because smooth, technosyncratic, polished albums mean similar concerts. The days when you could see Patti Smith wail out with Lenny Kaye at The Rat or The Bottom Line are gone. She was known to spit at her audiences, to jump on tables and kick drinks into the abyss. Patti Smith is now banned from The Bottom Line...
Much of the Cajuns' singular culture lingers on today, despite the invasion of their backwater over the past 30 years by public roads and private oil entrepreneurs. Gumbo and jambalaya still simmer on Cajun stoves and are dished up at local crawfish festivals (Rushton includes recipes for the adventurous). Men like James Daisy still rise at 3 a.m. to dredge for oysters: "Out there's where I live," he says of the endless marshes...
...white students broke out in racially tense Hyde Park High School. The fight began in one room at 10:30 a.m. and quickly spread. Thirty minutes later, all the white students were evacuated by the police and school officials, while the black students were kept in class to "simmer down." Since Hyde Park High is 40 per cent white, black parents wondered why the white students were considered in greater danger, and hence told to leave first. Black students were not sent home until an hour and a half later...
...cases the Government could appeal, McCree acts as a gatekeeper for the overburdened courts. In effect, he decides which issues involving the Federal Government-from the meaning of an agency regulation to the meaning of the Constitution-need to be finally resolved and which issues can be left to simmer. Last week, for example, McCree okayed a Government appeal on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, which is trying to establish that it has the right to investigate makers of poorly performing surgical and medical devices. He vetoed an appeal sought by the Defense Department to oppose a lower...
...secret to the surprisingly quick election of the new Pope may well be discovered in his recognized "aversion to Communism." And so, important church matters like birth control and priestly celibacy may have been set to simmer on the back burner in order to attend to a primary concern: the right of the individual to realize his potential and pursue his highest destiny free of oppression...