Word: dj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Sikowski (Cole Stevens), mayor of the town, faces an uphill re-election fight, and Phil Romano (Charles Laquidera, a WBCN dj) who inherited his father's strip-mining business isn't sure that he shouldn't back George's Jewish challenger, Sharman. James Daley, (Jon Terry) unloved and unsuccessful, is embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan...
...will pay--usually around $20 a tune. The producers control what the radio stations play, and at the same time try to make sure that no one artist becomes wealthy or well known enough to challenge their position. When Ivan attempts to push his own record, working through a DJ he knows, he is quickly rebuffed. Friendship cannot beat the hustle...
...this place of odd noises and smells. She snaps the radio on. The jive soul station. The jive rap of a jive brother, and the ditty-bop love songs. It all soothes over her current terror with pastel washes of nostalgia. Except sometimes the bouncing bass of the dj, startling her with its abrasive masculinity. Making her remember. Discord...
...sneer at the value of anti-war protest in the past two years, I find it impossible to sit around passively while Nixon throttles this war up to a bloody new pitch. The memory of those dreary marches in the past that tottered between the inanity of Pepsi Generation DJ's and the chaotic in-fighting of splinter group radicals has inhibited many of us from political activity for two year. While we might have been fools then in an embarrassment of youth, we would be infinitely worse now if we let Nixon get away with massacring a people...
...With what records are the following DJ's associated...