Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work, the Sidney Furie film During One Night, and Hollywood followed. By the end of her stay there, the bottom pinchers and a California crime scare had reduced her to sleeping with a tear-gas gun under her pillow. She was also scared off by the proffered parts, some of the available co-stars ("I had never acted opposite a brick wall before"), and the long-indenturing contracts proposed by two studios. After five months, she headed home with nothing to show but a 30,000-word journal, a real-life Nathanael West work that is too libelous to publish...
...other Western capitals, Amsterdam has had its quota of student barricades, tear gas volleys and police baton charges. The youthful protesters, who used to be known as Provos (for provocateurs), rioted over almost everything from Crown Princess Beatrix's lavish wedding in 1966, when they tossed smoke bombs at the royal carriage, to the country's critical housing shortage. But new tactics were introduced early this year by the Kabouters, or Pixies, who decided that fun and games might be more effective than paving stones and smoke bombs...
Suddenly, Paris seemed to have slipped two years back in time. Clouds of acrid tear gas hung over the chestnut trees of Left Bank boulevards, just as they had during the shattering événements of May 1968 that tore France apart and led directly to the fall of Charles de Gaulle. Thousands of angry Maoist students and tough riot policemen clashed in short but bloody street battles. Long-haired gauchiste (leftist) students in blue jeans and suede jackets stopped motorists in the Latin Quarter and flipped their cars over to form makeshift barricades. Rocks, bricks and chunks...
...followers attacked and occupied an adjacent bungalow that the police had built as their local headquarters. The crowd wanted it used as a clinic instead, and shouted: "Policlinica si, carabinero no" (Hospital yes, police no). Four hours later, the police returned with reinforcements, and after a barrage of tear gas and a volley of shots recaptured their headquarters. But they refused to pursue their challengers into the commune, even though at least six of its members had been accused of holding up banks. Toro him self, charged with harboring bank robbers, had already gone into hiding...
...want people to say, That's just like my kids.' " If Sam and Samantha say anything of the sort, it will be because their kids have taken up campus revolution for no more discernible reasons than sex and excitement. Despite endless minutes of sirens, screams, clubs and tear gas at the finale, Strawberry Statement only manages to make the point that Americans can make musical comedy of anything, including youthful dissent. The shallowness of the movie became all the more obvious when newspapers carried photographs of the killings at Kent State the morning after the screening...