Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teenagers in George Lucas' Graffiti are a generation bursting out of its skin. In a small town and a '62 world there's no road for their rock and roll anxiety to follow: they jump in their drag racers and drive back and forth on the strip, letting off steam. Teetering at the brink of a world not quite ready to release the new energy of a frontier mentality, the kids have a brief moment of loud, confused frenzy before they go to Vietnam or settle in the suburbs...
...Cambridge's ethnic and black working class majority, the City Council has been the focus of local bush-league Spiro Agnews. The Council decides zoning changes, hence to a great extent, the scope and character of Harvard's growth. And, with speculators vying for land in the Harvard-MIT strip for commercial and apartment development, there has been a lot of loose money available for political influence. The interests of the working class family, still by far the greatest percentage of Cambridge residents, have not been met. As Harvard buys up more land, there is less property tax paid...
Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals; comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy...
...most tantalizing dissonances is the work of the superb actors, who keep insinuating real pathos and depth beneath the gaudy surfaces of their dirty-cartoon-strip characters: one lost, soulful look from Marcello, one hurt glance from Andrea Ferreol (the actress who plays, unforgettably, the concupiscent schoolteacher who outlasts them all), and the eaters who are bent on turning themselves into trash become momentarily sympathetic--real people that we feel can still be "saved." Convulsed by laughter that chokes, we're depleted by movie's end, having been through a cathartic, unlovely experience: the orgy as death...
...easily confused with the rival sport of stock-car racing. In both, the cars sometimes bear a superficial resemblance. But in stocks, the autos career around oval tracks for as many as 500 miles before crossing the finish line; dragsters hurtle down a 1,320-ft. asphalt strip under the watchful electronic eye of an automatic timer. The cars usually race in pairs, but drivers are out to beat the clock as much as each other...