Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislature. In his moment of triumph, Nixon seemed less calculating, more casual than usual. The relaxed mood appeared to be catching. Finishing her dinner at Trader Vic's, Pat Nixon lit up her first cigarette in public since her husband took office. To Washington observers, it was a smoke signal...
Dressed in pure Martian style, British Rock Singer David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars packed in 6,000 in two nights at a marijuana-smoke-filled Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Bowie landed onstage in a contraption that looked like an overgrown Christmas tree ornament, and he seemed to have attracted an audience every bit as spaced-out as himself. Showers of valentines with little love messages poured down from the upper balconies, while Bowie and the Martian Spiders blasted their songs with such supersonic zeal that even the squeals from the audience were drowned...
...those who feel that the Federal Government is not doing enough to promote school desegregation declined three points to about 48%. More than half think the courts are too concerned with the rights of criminals, compared with 48% the year before. The survey also found that more freshmen smoke cigarettes (up about four points to 20%), fewer drink beer (down ten points to 50%) and more think marijuana should be legalized (46% against last year's 39%). Additionally, more hope to join fraternities or sororities...
...great tidal wave of protest that broke in Rip's absence, still sporadically coursing through the streets and campuses. The year 1968 was at once its crest and ebb. Rip was gone when Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis and when 172 cities went up in smoke, when 3,500 were injured and 27,000 arrested. He was gone when Bobby Kennedy was murdered two months later, and when two months afterward, the city of Chicago seemed to become the epicenter for every disaffected demonstrator in America...
Perhaps there was something in the global ionosphere that year, something that still clings like smoke in an empty room. Without benefit of an unpopular war to trigger protest, Paris also was torn by civil disturbances; so were Mexico City and Tokyo. Even in Prague, the people rose up -only to be pushed into submission by armored tanks. Today all protest seems, somehow, to be an echo of that hopeful, dreadful time; but to the new listener there is no resonance, only the flat remnants of unassimilated rage...