A year in review

For Girlie on the Edge‘s Six Sentence Stories for July 18, 2021.
PROMPT WORD: SHIFT

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The year was 1971.

Someone named D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane and parachuted with $200,000 in ransom money somewhere over southwestern Washington state never to be found.

Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.

With the world reeling amid violence in Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan – hell, why write a list rather than just saying with violence raging pretty much anyplace in the world you can think of, John Lennon released the song Imagine.

One of the greatest blaxploitation movies in the history of the genre, a movie about a black private detective who was said to be “Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt” titled “Shift”, was released to rave reviews.

EDIT: I’ve just received word that the movie was titled “Shaft”, not “Shift”; and I also learned that I don’t have a seventh sentence in which to tell you that the theme song from the movie, “Theme from Shift Shaft” received an Academy Award for best original song for writer and performer Gandolf “Gandy” Fitch.