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...downtown sidewalk will do just as nicely. The action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across some asphalt. It's risky but not all that dangerous. And the cops don't like it. Perfect...
...love?" In pressed wallflower ballads and rhythm and blues slicked up for the cotillion, this garland of lovelorn billets-doux shows no sign of Nyro's lyrical gift. Most of the tunes have to do with being wronged, often romantically, sometimes legally: "Autumn's child is catchin' hell," she sings, "for having been too naive to tell/ property rights from chapel bells." These are the best lines on the record. They are promptly diluted, then wasted, like every other tune in this set, by sunblind personal reflections...
Poor Kris Kristofferson. The former Pomona College football star, now 40, pulled a hamstring muscle while playing Shake Tiller, a good ole boy and pass-catchin' end in the movie being made from Dan Jenkins' novel Semi-Tough. Burt Reynolds, a onetime running back for Florida State, is cast as Shake's pal, the hard-drinking, womanizing hero, Billy Clyde Puckett. During the filming in Dallas Reynolds was constantly surrounded by groupies. What to do? Taking a tip from Puckett, he claims he "got 'em upstairs as quick as possible...
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