Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following the Lampposts. Customs officials rush to their posts in the airport, smile and wave tourists toward Mexico City. Along the way, brilliant banners flap from lampposts. In town, op-art posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...
...Lindsay's plan had succeeded, the three Ford districts would probably have dropped from sight, submerged in a city-wide wave of reform. The legislature, however, succumbed to intense pressure from New York's United Federation of Teachers and from New York school administrators, and emasculated Lindsay's legislation. Their hopes shattered, ghetto communities concluded that the political process offered no chance for effective change, and moved on to a confrontation of raw power in the city streets. Ocean Hill-Brownsville offered the first opportunity...
...wave of conservatism you say is making the election of Nixon very likely is appalling. No conservative nation in history has survived. Indeed, our mother country, England, died of it; there is no reason to think we are any different. The voters of 1968 may well go down in history as having preserved the state while destroying the nation...
...letting her hair grow "as long as it'll go, down to me feet." In Manhattan to begin a promotion tour for Yardiev cosmetics, she just laughed when asked whether her fiancé-manager, Justin de Villeneuve, had given her a diamond ring yet. Said Twiggy, with a wave of her ring-laden fingers: "I ain't got no room for an engagement ring...
Will that bastard-saint, the real Al Vellucci, please stand up, wave the life wand and let the dumb speak...