Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed, does the two-disc album, a live recording of unspecified stops made on Bowie's 1977 summer tour. Each side has a distinct sound, roughly charting some of the solar systems Bowie has visited in his galactic travel...
...Nazi group earlier this year won court approval to demonstrate in Skokie, but decided instead to hold two summer rallies in a Chicago park...
...appropriate, not only because so many of Cheever's characters are commuters. A good many others are suddenly discomfited by journeys of the body or spirit that they had not meant to take. In The Seaside Houses, a husband takes his family to the beach for the summer and begins sensing sour emanations from his rented house; before he realizes why, his marriage of twelve years is over. In The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, a man with money troubles is appalled to find himself burgling his wealthy neighbors and friends...
High above the stage is a cupola-shaped structure outlined with electric bulbs, as if for a summer festival. In it, a string quartet plays beguiling Viennese waltzes. Directly beneath it, on the stage proper, is a butcher shop openly displaying huge gory carcasses hung from steel hooks. The images form a contrapuntal irony. This is a subcutaneous play in which maggots infest the corrupt body of a seemingly sound and smugly self-satisfied society. The true atmosphere of the play is the stench of impending Nazism...
...bullpen. And Yaz sat in front of his clubhouse stall with his head in his hands, eye grease hiding his modest tears. There was nothing he or his team could do. The Yankees had to lose, and the Cleveland Indians had to beat them. In the middle of the summer the Red Sox were winning in spite of themselves, and now they were losing in spite of themselves. Yaz has seen disappointment come again and again. And two days later, after Yaz and his team finally did catch the Yanks in a tie, it returned one last time...