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...lead guitar. They use virtually no sophisticated recording tricks. I guess the thing is that they have retained all of the normal apparatus of a regular old rock and roll band, but their sound is unique. The only two groups that have done remakes of Who songs are the Amboy Dukes, and Count Five, but both of them were dismal limitations. Look at the individual members of the group. Peter Townshend plays lead and writes most of the songs. A lot of the time he plays chorded lead like the Stones on "Jumpin Jack Flash." A lot of the time...

Author: By Michael Cohen, | Title: The Who: It's Very Cinematic, You Know | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

...Perth Amboy, N.J. (pop. 39,000), a police arrest was followed by four nights of disquiet among the city's 7,000 Puerto Ricans, during which police claimed to have been attacked with rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails. A Puerto Rican spokesman charged, however, that "it was the police who rioted" by seizing innocent people in the streets. Either way, city officials promised to consider rescinding an antiloitering ordinance that many Puerto Ricans resented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Simmering Symptoms | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Also elected were Phoebe C. Elisworth of Guilford, Conn. (Social Relations); Dana Smith Eisbree of Libonier, Pa. (Government); Penny Hollander Feldman of Silver Springs, Md. (Government); Sheila L. Grinnell of Bronx, N.Y. (English); Joan M. Helpern of New York City (Social Relations); Martha J. Kaplan of Perth Amboy, N.J. (Government); and Sydney Key of Berkeley, Calif, (Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE PBK ELECTS 23 | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...GLORIA GARCIA PAJAK Perth Amboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1965 | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...scarlet detail of Harlow's careening career, including much that was never hinted at in the gossip columns and some that is clearly imaginary, is revealed for the prurient-minded in this "intimate biography" by Irving Shulman (The Amboy Dukes). Shulman includes facts that Harlow's doctors evidently did not have-some not even her hairdresser could know for sure. He asserts that Harlow had bouts of nymphomania. He says that Paul Bern was impotent and a sadist whose beatings caused Harlow kidney injuries -which ultimately killed her because Jean's mother, a Christian Scientist, refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Better Left Unsaid | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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