Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonists burst into song, including a rousing chorus of America the Beautiful. Even the skeptical Ryan was impressed. He rose to tell his assembled hosts: "From what I've seen, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that has happened in their whole lives." The audience applauded loudly. Jones stood up and led the clapping...
...turned a corner, and the whole mass of bodies came into view. The smell was overpowering, the sight unworldly. There were no marks of violence, no blood. Only a few bodies showed the gruesome signs of cyanide rictus. Outside there were three dead dogs, poisoned. Down the road in a large cage was 'Mr. Muggs,' the commune's pet gorilla. He had been shot. In a tree-shaded area was Jones' home, a three-room bungalow. Bodies were scattered through all three rooms, some on beds, others on the floor. The quiet was broken only by the meowing...
Police arrested ten protestors, but a spokesman said that "on the whole, the demonstration was conducted in a good natured...
MOST NOTICEABLE is the ridiculous position of the media in the whole affair. Television cameras have provided us with a grotesquely complete portrait of all events pre-and post-suicide in Jonestown and anywhere else the People's Temple has left its mark; in fact, the only thing missing was the main event. Nothing could be errier than watching the films broadcast last Wednesday night by NBC, when they showed the tapes Don Harris would have broadcast had he made it back alive. Therein American viewers, waiting to see Johnny Carson, were treated to the sight of a now-dead...
...whole thing would be laughable if Devo didn't sound so sincere. In their psychotic way, they do, unlike so many of the already-stereotyped razor-and-chain punks. But the system that governs the way popular music gets distributed in America has already latched onto the most unpleasant, alienated side of Devo in a futile and self-defeating shot at record sales through novelty. The band's appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live only gave the folks in Peoria a superficial look at Devo, and probably left them shaking their heads at the decadence of today's wasted...