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...Rome continues to spook the American imagination. Interventionists and cold war warriors invoke the ancient empire as an example of world order that the U.S. must help impose. On the other hand, Rome is also invoked by those who see the Decline of the West in every long-haired head and every puff...
...Timothy Tyler last week talked with Chug Utter, a Nevada mustanger who in 20 years has "gathered" 40,000 wild horses, and in whose pen Rocky awaits his fate. Chug remembers flying over wild herds in a light plane and using a "four-ten sawed-off shotgun just to spook 'em. We also used an electric shocking machine, but we didn't harm 'em. That's all poppycock." Anyway, says Chug philosophically, "there's only one end to being a horse, whether he's a champion race horse or a plug: dog food...
...Possible Dream." Their mural-sized drawing depicts a "ride through space." which is taken on a yellow slide entered at top through an Apollo-type capsule. They also intend to throw objects at a gargantuan mouse-target who wears a sign saying "cheese please." A badminton court, and a spook house which has an octopus guarding it are among other parts of their dream...
Funky, jive, dawn, high, the Man, hawk, cool, hot, copped-out, cats, caps, kicked, reefer, Johns, juke, ofay, goofed, wing, hip, dig, soul, honkies, splib (spook as in Negro), grass and skag are just a few of the words appearing in black poetry that often have multiple meanings elusive to the white reader. For example, in Etheridge Knight's Poems from Prison, he says...
...does he? There is plenty of dispute from Muhammad Ali (ne Cassius Clay), the fellow whom Ring magazine still lists as the No. 1 heavyweight. Shortly after he was stripped of his title in 1967 over a draft-evasion charge, Muhammad prophesied that he would return to spook the sport: "There I'll be, wearing a sheet and whispering, 'Ali-e-e-e-e, Ali-e-e-e-e.' I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say Ali is the real champ and anyone else is a fake." Last week...