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...avert a confrontation--and the violence and deaths that might have resulted--McCall, against the advice of all aides--planned a massive outdoor rock festival in a state park 20 miles outside the city. More than 30,000 youths attended the concert, titled "Vortex I", for which the state provided bands, and eating and medical facilities. State police were ordered to be especially lenient to avoid confrontation. The festival took place without incident, as did the convention in Portland. What became known as "The governor's pot party" failed to harm McCall's bid for re-election...
...defense, officials argue that the international organization is "caught in a political vortex," needing incontrovertible evidence before being able to condemn a superpower. Meanwhile, for the victims of the deadly yellow showers, the raindrops keep falling...
Only I was Nancy I Bauer '82, and I was working in the vortex that is the Crimson's production shop, overhearing the latest reports on the American hostages Iran via the newspaper's excise for a black and white TV. Three friends were checking the dispatches clicking over the old Associated Press wire machine in the sky we call the newsroom. They roused professors in the middle of the night, just in case. A paste up that went up on the production hay as the day dawned. In hours, it was filled with typeset copy and headlines and then...
...Church intended only to retain pagan forms, it had a difficult time restraining the pagan spirit. Despite clerical protests and papal anathemas, Christmas in the early days preserved many of the worst orgies, debaucheries and indecencies of the Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. The clergy itself was whirled into the vortex, instituting a Feast of Fools so that "the folly which is natural to and born with us might exhale . . . once a year...
Unlike Apocalypse Now or The Deerhunter, war in Gallipoli does not resemble an all-consuming vortex. Instead, war, specifically Winston Churchill's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign into Ottoman Turkey, waits patiently at the end of the film. For Gallipoli concerns getting to the front and the adventures en route as much as the conflict on the 60-mile-long Turkish peninsula...