Andover High School - Andanno Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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P decisions. Outside winter grey snow melting into grfeen ' rass spring America slumps in an easy chair mesmerized by TV reality — an artificially colored 20x15 screen. life flickers on in successive images: machine gun shots rutted mud roads flooded rice fields wounded on aluminum stretchers with white bandanas — silk screened in blood camouflage green the only bush left airplane thunder petrifies Asian children America hears their screams 10,000 miles away in his cozy chair eating Hood ' s ice cream a multimillion dollar satellite twinkling above; this amazing box captures his attention with gory reality and has the added attraction of an on-off switch, the world ' s a stage and we ' re all players: Indochina dies on hijackers fly on Nicaragua quakes on forests burn on mideast cries on Europe bickers on Russia zooms on U.S. declines on Watergate bugs on life drags on spring grows on and he watches on. Do the freed POW ' s see this U.S. or: the teary smiles of their families the token bracelets fans have on the red carpet salute of the military? brainwashing there — here — everywhere propaganda absorbancy level 90% and rising h Nixonomics — phase one, two, three strikes you ' re out meat boycotters parade by in the April mud , fat cattle moo for cheaper grazing fields 3 ' ' blown up TV coverage ignores starving milfions yi ice cream rose ten cents last week yet America eats on a Watergate on the brain — Nixon Chinese torture ioA information drop by drop — incrimination stop soon stop watching patterns flow, the ice cream in his bowl turning to cold sou — iliLAmerica keeps stirring circles then tired throws it on the floor FUNDS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION VETOED BUDGET TIGHT MILITARY AIRFIELDS CLOSE ALCOHOL LATEST TEENAGE DRUG GLORIA STEINEM — JOAN OF ARC SPACE LAB MISSION FIGHT AGE 18 TO DRINK AND VOTE BURNING BRA AND PETTICOAT WOUNDED KNEE CONTINUES TO BLEED VIRAL CANCER BREAKTHROUGH SEEN ALI AND ERASER CONGRESS AND NADER BUY FROST FREE REFRIGERATOR GAY LIB JOINED IN MATRIMONY WHO WOULD PAY THE ALIMONY STAY TUNED NOW AS NBC PRESENTS THE AMERICAN FAMILY sitting in his little world escaping to the box his life appears in syncopated flashes everyone part of American family — tragedy Ir jf 0%, a camera in every toothbrush a mike in every shower the situation comedy unfolding behind closed eyes dreamlike spring unreal to the involved audience America haunted with his nightmares the dirty snow has become dirty water and the grass is rich with the grease of America ' s life. PENTAGON PAPER ELLSBERG FREED SYSTEM MODERN COFFEE NO CAFFEINE STATES... 1. LIBBY SEIFEL