Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warren Court Legacy. "The court moved at a slower pace and with greater care than in previous years, but it certainly did not try to tear down what the Warren Court accomplished," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. The Burger Court, in fact, modestly extended the pioneering doctrines of the Warren Court in several areas. The historic thrust of the Warren Court to desegregate public schools was advanced last October when the Burger Court unanimously ordered southern school districts to desegregate "at once" -a sharp rebuke to the Nixon Administration's earlier efforts to ease desegregation pressures...
...cache of hidden weapons off the Falls Road. One civilian was crushed under an armored car and four died of gunshot wounds; at least a score of people were wounded, including ten soldiers, as the rioters hurled rocks and homemade hand grenades and the tommies replied with clouds of tear gas and nausea...
SUDDENLY, the plot shifts its course. The strikers occupy the gym. They sit in concentric circles singing "Give Peace a Chance." Even an inane conversation between secretaries cannot extinguish the brutality of police charging into the building, systematically beating the students and filling up the gym with tear gas. The romance turns to nightmare, and the people, even though they have been stick figures, are beaten and bloodied with anguishing realism...
This last twenty minute metee casts the opening idyll in a differentlight. The issues were meant to be unimportant; what matters most is the pain of the bust, the baptism under tear gas, and coming of age. While there is much evidence to defend this emotionalism, it becomes an escape valve for rock numbers, artsy shots, synthetic myth making, and facile evasion of issues...
...very least, "I Am You" will put a lump in your throat; if you've been in love and aren't now, it'll tear you up. Thus it's a good thing that the next cut is the joyously idiotic "Frankford El," an energetic country tune with inane lyrics. "Raspberries," which finishes the album, sounds at first like a lot of wasted energy, but proves, when you're used to it, to be quite interesting...