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Anderson's personal habits are conservative. His strongest expletives are "Sugar!" and "Son of a biscuit!" and the most damning thing he generally says?this time about a Democratic Senator?is that "he is a weak tinkler." Anderson still plays hockey in an oldtimers' league, jogs daily, packs golf clubs for his out-of-town trips and likes to open the fishing season, although he has had little time for the sport otherwise. He is a staunch civil libertarian, and while he would not think of going to see Deep Throat, or even Last Tango in Paris, he would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Minnesota: A State That Works | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...Watergate scandal exposed by the press, anyone might have predicted what turned out to be Nixon's snide retort: "We have had our differences in the past and I hope you give me hell everytime you think I'm wrong." Give him a teething ring or a dog biscuit to munch on (like an unprecedented landscape victory, and Nixon's a bundle of saccharine assisinity. But deprive of what he wants, and he bawls like an infant or yaps like a terrier...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: The Same Old Dick | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

Instead there was Billy Harper and his sax. Odetta moaning about how it's gonna feel "when your biscuit roll is gone." Mandrill's man in the big straw hat talking about 'Oooh shake some boo-die. Get it on. Right on." Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers making the transition from a mellow "summertime and the livin' is easy" to some Latin and the livin...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Jazz Came Home | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...word-music, though her other great speech, the one about how forests make people kind and gentle, is hard to understand. Joseph Wilkins as Vanya and Virginia Feingold as Helena whine too much; but David Zucker as Astrov and Esquire Jauchem as the Professor ("something between a well-preserved biscuit and an educated fish," Vanya calls him) aren...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: New Whine in Old Battles | 3/21/1973 | See Source »

...boring as it sounds to me right now; but it's definitely not the rock revelation we have come to expect from the Stones once a year. For pure shaking and stamping, it doesn't touch such obscure albums as Official Music by King Biscuit Boy or the recent first effort of Mitch Ryder's new band, Detroit. Either the Stones are beginning...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: If Mick Jagger's An Exile on Main St. .......Then I'm an Okie from Muskogee | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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