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...Good. I'm tired of hearing all this crap about those soulful starving musicians. Everybody's trying to make a living. I'm a working musician, and all this romanticized stuff about being a beautiful cat is just pure shit." I agreed with him. Everybody was on the make; the underground musicians I knew were like a school of hip piranhas not averse to a little backstabbing here and there. We all did our share; I can't think of more than two or three people in the whole scene who hadn't been screwed at least once by someone...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Fading in Rock Phantasmagoria: A Personal Autopsy of the Boston Sound | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

...garish, tentlike concrete hall. He looked up at the high wire overhead to see one of the Flying Cavarettas flip over three times in the air and land in the arms of her brother. The act distracted him just long enough for the dice shooter to roll a crap three, wiping out the gambler's winnings. He collected his remaining chips, glared at a cavorting clown, shouldered past a lady stilt walker and stalked out of the casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Midway on the Strip | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...City sprawled out on the long seat at the back and started to drink. "Do you know what we're doing here?" he asked the television cameraman who was sharing the bottle of whiskey with him. "We're like a traveling minstel show, with no beginning, no conclusion. Oh, crap. Thirty-three straight days. No rest, no rest...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Flying High And... ...Low With Wallace | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

...Floating Crap Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM CAMELOT TO ELYSIUM (VIA OLYMPIC AIRWAYS) | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Successful as the scheme proved, the oil-tanker business remains a fragile floating crap game in international finance. Fortunately for Onassis, the demand for petroleum imposed by the Marshall Plan, the Korean War and now Viet Nam has kept the tankers cruising through the past 30 years at an ever accelerating pace. He has also been aided along the way by Oilman John Paul Getty, 75, whom Onassis admired and courted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM CAMELOT TO ELYSIUM (VIA OLYMPIC AIRWAYS) | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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