Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...outsiders," were afraid that the decision will only spark further trouble. The verdicts did not trigger the rioting that officials feared, but more than 1,500 people in Guilford and Durham counties participated in peaceful demonstrations to "express citizens' concerns" over the acquittals. In the only violent reaction, a gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road. Smith, who was not hit, managed to fire back before his car crashed into a tree. Meanwhile, the C.W.P. and other organizations announced plans to hold an anti-Klan, anti...
...scientist who found the ultimate melody came to a sad end--Byrne and Eno take note. How far they will continue to search for it in the bush, like a musical Stanley and Livingston, will largely be determined by the reaction to this album and how well they can duplicate the funk/permanent wave fusion in concert. Byrne was able to toss aside his carefree/paranoid psycho image in one album and can abandon this turn just as easily. What will the '81 Talking Heads approach be: guitars, synthesizers or David Byrne beating out a polyrhythm on a hollowed...
LAST WEEK, the Corporation took a position it could not realistically avoid. Negative reaction from the Faculty, the press, and other academic institutions made the University's participation as a minority shareholder in a proposed DNA company tactically and politically impossible--at least right...
...white reaction and bureaucratic obstruction have dampened the reform movement, she added. "There will be no repeal of the discriminatory legislation. Race classification and the Group Areas Act will remain," Suzman said, adding, "Africans have political rights only in their homelands. They are excluded from South African political power...
Undeniably, Detroit's woes are acute. So far, consumer reaction to its new small cars has been tepid. In October, Chrysler's sales were 6% above a year ago on the strength of its K-cars. But Ford was off 20%, despite the debut of its Escort and Lynx subcompacts, and slipped an additional 8.5% in early November...