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...culturally 'lightened too. We be tukin' hard courses in many subjects, like Afro-Am Studies, Women's Studies, and Policy Studies. And who be mouthin' 'bout us not bein' good read? I be practicly knowin' Roots cova to cova...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Voces Clamantium in Deserto | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

...virulent wordplay abounded. "I don't wanna be your lover--I just wanna be your victim," Elvis sputtered in his souped-up homage to whacking-off that he not-so-subtly dubbed "The Beat." And he bragged in "Lipstick Vogue," "Sometimes I almost feel...just like a human bein...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Growing Up With Elvis | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

...Playboy magazine-and course they know all 'bout bein' clean and dirty at the same time-they ran a story on Edna's Ranch by a fat, bearded journalist called Larry L. King. Larry's a good ole Texas boy, and he was none too happy seein' one of the state's noblest traditions tore down, like they'd turned the Alamo into a soccer stadium. So he visited La Grange and wrote it all up. Called it "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whorehouse goes Hollywood | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...never claimed to be a sexual athlete; that was for the ladies of the demimonde," write Gold and Fizdale. "Still, she took it for granted that not only was her husband in love with her, but so, more or less, were all his friends. It was the thing, to bein love with Misia ... She had tremendous allure in the French meaning of the word-a sense of how to carry herself with style ... she listened attentively and responded with enthusiasm, candor and an independence of judgment startling in one so young. Her speech was salted with irony and peppered with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angel of the Arts | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...this bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be, well, different, you know, together. Milos Forman, the Czech-born director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), trying to turn the Aquarian Age stage hit Hair into a movie, needs an authentic circa 1968 "bein" as backdrop for crucial scenes. Those affairs having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, he has to wing it. So Forman's munchkins hire six rock bands, reserve the twelve-acre Sheep Meadow in Central Park and put out a call for extras: "Director Forman will prominently feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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