Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houdini's success was based on more than defiance of the establishment; he seemd to defy fate itself. In 1916, for instance, Houdini narrowly escaped from a box buried six ft. underground. (Once free, he had to dig his way to the surface.) Another of his death-defying tricks was the Chinese Water Torture Cell: padlocked by the ankles in a glass-fronted water tank, Houdini hung upside down, but would make his escape within harrowing minutes. (He did not die doing this stunt, despite the efforts of Hollywood producers to make people think...
...fact many of the alienated youths who join radical underground groups in Western democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg, a psychiatrist who trains the New York City Police Department's anti-terrorist unit, contends that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps...
BACK IN THE '60s, riding the winds of manic craziness that filled the era, came what the straight press called "underground newspapers." The phenomenon began back before that, actually back in the summer of 1956, when the first Village Voice rolled off the presses in New York. The first issues of The Boston Phoenix and The Back Bay Guardian were based on the proposition that rock lyrics are poetry, too, and in an era of Dylan, Hendrix, Beatles and Stones, were for the most part sustained by a rock mania that translated into record and stereo ads. But if rock...
Well, times change, and the underground papers have changed with them, or have gone under; the survivors have reached the suburbanites who worry about which lawn sprinkler system to buy. The Real Paper is probably the biggest American publishing success in the last decade--from a staff that once went six months without pay to a twenty-story high rise on Mass. Ave. in five years. But to do that, something had to go. The record ads and the stereo ads are still there, but the cover story of The Real Paper this week is a long feature about...
...seen by some Western diplomats. Eyewitnesses reported that one policeman was stabbed to death and another killed when rioters beat him on the head with a beer crate during the three-hour melee. At least 200 young people were injured, and 700 others were held by police in an underground parking lot beneath the Alexanderplatz for post-concert quarantine...