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...watching your performance," a friend comments. But once McGee starts investigating a pair of murders, he forgets his complaints long enough to provide high and exuberant entertainment. Initially, he inherits half of a sinister motorcycle shop. The other 50% is owned by an Indian girl called Mits. A renegade biker leads Travis to a drugged producer filming balloon races. On location, he narrowly escapes a mob attack on the crew-seems the technicians had been using local teenagers for a series of porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...years ago, Paul Freelob ran the neighborhood head shop. His hair was shoulder length, and he called himself Paul Free. He sold rolling paper, black-light posters and patchouli oil across the counter, and something a little more interesting under it. He wore biker boots, denims contoured by Levi, not Seventh Avenue, and diamond-shaped shades in wire frames. His favorite band was the Doobie Brothers, and he could sing all the words to Listen to the Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing down the Middle | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...couldn't play, some spoilsport critic might suggest, he could still join the band. Paul's personal history is a lot like the band's. The Doobies (the name is San Francisco slang for reefer) started out playing for Hell's Angels and similar roughriding biker types ten years ago, had a couple of random hit singles, endured several massive changes of personnel and finished out the '70s as one of the flushest, smoothest groups in pop rock. The Doobies, in fact, define as well as anyone that median straight down the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing down the Middle | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded at rush hour. Too slow for a biker. Buses fuming. Too much pollution. But then Jones began to listen to the sounds of people going to work. Quite a drama, he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Better than a Rolls Any Day | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...played by Roz Kelly, thirtyish), came roaring into Fonzie's life on her guess-what-color motorcycle for the new season's first two shows of ABC'S hit series Happy Days. Instantly smitten by the shapely Pinky, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest female biker," the Fonz actually bussed her in the bike shop and carried her pink scarf close to his leather-jacketed heart. For a few tense moments marriage loomed. Were viewers turned off by this soft side of their superstud hero? No way. The Nielsen ratings showed that Happy Days captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pink Passion | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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