Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just want to look at a question or two." Scattered, hisses and some laughter broke the tension in the air. Carie Graves, who was sitting on the ground, started wriggling her six foot one inch frame. "I think a spider just crawled up my pants," she explained. The laughter spread, and the attentive silence was over. Questions were being directed at Parker from all directions, questions about the future. What about breaking the time standard? What kind of a boat would they have in England? How much time would they have to practice...
...relationships based only on sex and finally revolts against sex completely, joining a commune of women who reject their sexual exploiters, seems fairly plausible. On the other hand, Decter cannot imagine that the revolt may have had an objective cause--widespread disillusionment with marriage as an institution, and the spread of freer sexual relations resulting from that disillusionment. Because she is interested only in the relationship between parent and child. Decter often avoids other issues: that the 60s might have been a time when the government was drafting young men to fight a war many considered immoral, and that throughout...
...least Hollywood--which is a disappointment too, all 50's Jack in the Boxes gone shabby--has that big sign H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D up in the hills, and a couple of monuments you've seen in the movies. But Nashville's myth was spread by ear, so that without the radio on as you cruise in you could be anywhere, except for an eerie deja-vu that you finally figure out seeped in from the cover of Dylan's Nashville Skyline: a flimsy, half-naked cluster of skyscrapers, vaguely embarrassed in their lack...
...except for the business district--tall buildings where everything is sheathed in structural steel. Even with all the civic pride that obviously went into these structures and the malls around them, they are a little ghostly, especially at night. The outskirts are where the action is, but it's spread out along a wheel of strips--the road to Chattanooga, to Memphis, to Atlanta and Louisville--all crammed with steak houses and motels. There are a great many bars in Nashville, and you have to go in and sit a while to get a sense of the place...
...report that Butterfield had been a CIA man was persuasively denied by many sources, but it started a wave of speculation about how high and wide the agency had spread its covert operations. More basically, it produced a rare glimpse into the mysterious workings of the CIA and its use of "contact" people in Government agencies...