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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punk rock club in New York. She also plays rhythm guitar in a band called Revenge. "Groupies think it's so glamorous to get a job here. On a good night, you don't sit down! You don't sit, you have to carry this heavy tray, clean up, take abuse...I've had half my hair pulled out already! I'm not one of those girls that dyes her hair pink and orange and crawls all over the band members. I think that's disgusting. They think it's in 'cause they're doing it in England. I think...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Riding High on the New Wave | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

With the D.F.L. Party behind him, Humphrey had no trouble getting elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 34. Brash and boisterous, he proceeded to clean up the city's brothels, its police force, and its image in general. Said a Minneapolis newspaper: "He puts firecrackers under everything." Humphrey agreed: "I got the people all steamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of an American Original | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...Lester is always taking advantage of him. I mean, the phone's always ringing, or that radio gadget in the truck, and there's Lester saying, "Henry, do this, do that." And it's not ranch work. It's Lester wanting someone to help him clean his swimming pool, or fix his roof, or run over to the feedyard and make sure those Okie calves he keeps trading on the side are getting the right feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tall in the Pickup Truck | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...both clothed, are sitting in voyeurs' row, just outside the orgy room. "It's a very immoral place," says the woman, giggling. Trouble is, the voyeurs' view through the narrow entrance is blocked by the "matman," a craggy fellow who stands with arms folded like Mr. Clean. Is his job to police the orgy? Matman looks incredulous. "We never have any trouble here. These are good people. I am more of a shepherd looking after my flock." The shepherd's main role is to see that customers join and leave .the orgy in pairs. Once inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Is There Life in a Swingers' Club? | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...never do it here," he says, staring at an enormous male derriere rising out of a sea of jiggling flesh in the mat room. "I don't want to be second, third or fourth. I do it at home where I know it's clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Is There Life in a Swingers' Club? | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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