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Word: billye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since football is every bit as important to the Texas social structure as bourbon and the Baptist Church, it is only fitting that the fair should kick off with the annual Texas-Oklahoma game. This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

David Merrick will weigh in with Nobody's Perfect, an adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie, Some Like It Hot, in which Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe costarred. Elaine Joyce will play the Monroe part and Bobby Morse will fill the Lemmon role. Jule Styne supplies the music, Bob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Fabulous Invalid's New Symptoms | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

5. In 1958, L.S.U. under coach Paul Dietzel won the national championship after winning 10 straight games. His offense, sporting All-American Billy Cannon, was nicknamed the 'White" team because this was the color of their practice jerseys, but what was the more inventive and famous nickname of his defense...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: An Era to Remember--'50s and '60s Football | 10/21/1971 | See Source »

For the second part of his performance. Zappa chose the story of "Billy the Mountain," a minirock opera that makes "Tommy" sound like "My Generation" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" seem a warmed-over-version of "The Lord's Prayer." It is a musical work of a complexity that jars the...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Motherloving | 10/9/1971 | See Source »

And the plot of "Billy the Mountain" is as intriguing as the music. Billy is a mountain very upset at being ripped off, i.e.,his picture has appeared on thousands of post cards but he has never received any royalties. However, one day, a man in a white Cadillac drives...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Motherloving | 10/9/1971 | See Source »

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