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...rich and famous enough, you can paper over some of the errors of your youth. Harrison went to court and persuaded a judge to stop the sale of a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Create a real students section, not just the crummiest seats around the 10-to 20-yard line...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: And the Band Played On (II) | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...Millses represent an unbroken working-class line fated to perform the world's crummiest jobs. "I would take my place behind the horses . . . I'm into traffic," says one laborer shyly. Before settling down to shovel manure, George I takes a wrong turn on his way to the Crusades and does a stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birth of the Blue-Collar Blues | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...ANGER: The boy realizes he can talk without being criticized. His language becomes hostile toward his family, the experimenter, the law, and social customs. Arriving at the laboratory for his fourth meeting, David called the experimenter's tie "the crummiest" he had even seen. Later, looking out the window, he saw some construction workers, "See that guy out there? Going to mash his mouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Project Helps J.D.'s By Tape-Recording Their Views | 9/24/1962 | See Source »

Typical was David, 18, a reform school graduate described as "unreachable" and "psychopathic" He began by aimlessly complaining about everything from prison conditions to cops and fate. Then he got mad, called his interviewer's necktie the "crummiest" he had ever seen, peered out the window and snapped, "See that guy out there? Going to mash his mouth in." Then came despair: "I know there's no hope left to be anything. I'm sick, man, sick. Sometimes I feel like laying down in the street and never getting up. Dogs are my friends. They know. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talking It Out | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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