Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before noon, 600 blacks step out from the Springhill Missionary Baptist Church on Green Street and head silently for the courthouse, walking three abreast and carrying signs reading SMASH THE KLAN. A police helicopter whirls overhead. The 65-member Tupelo police force is stationed along the route, looking like a seedy version of a TV SWAT team. Most carry 12-gauge pump guns or rifles (some with bayonets), and several big old boys are bulging out of blue bulletproof vests. They look mad. "I walked point for 31 days in a row in Viet Nam," says a young black...
That song became the title cut on a well-reviewed album, which was followed by Live Bullet, a kinetic concert set that went platinum and paved the way for last year's Night Moves, a smash album that sold over 2 million copies and contained one of the most haunting of all contemporary songs, a fond, sexy memory of adolescent love...
...resided on top of the evolutionary scale; what better way to spend a life than laughing at the lower orders? Such was Mencken's amusement during the '20s and early '30s. It was a resentful, mocking epoch; Americans, disillusioned by World War I, were anxious to smash icons and uncover clay feet. In newspapers, magazines -the Smart Set and the American Mercury-and some 40 books, Mencken merrily blasted Christianity in general and the Bible Belt in particular. He satirized professors, savaged politicians and labeled the majority of Americans-i.e., anyone who did not agree with...
Lundy, a three-year starter at second singles before moving up to number one this season, started the season slowly against the improved competition he had to face. "The Doctor" grooved his solid, virtually flawless game in the squad's league opener, though, to smash Navy's Buddy Robinson...
...played the college professor turned pitcher in the smash film "It Happens Every Spring...