Word: doin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lissen! Ahm gointa tell you, Ahm gointa call ya all pals tonight as you know why? "Cause Ahm doin'a benefit, Ahm given' all money to the Advocate...
...persuade Brown to find work in the movies for her boy friend Killer, never visible on the stage but always present in her thoughts. "What is he doing?" Brown asks. "He don' do nuthin'," Geraldine replies. "What does he want to do?" Brown asks. "He's doin' it," says Geraldine. "But ain't nobody takin' pictures...
...difficulties have bothered both sides. Some Texan employees point to office signs exhorting them GOOD COMMUNICATIONS-SAY IT-DO IT-QUICK ACTION and suggest that they be retranslated into Japanese. A Japanese executive was bewildered one morning when an American salesman greeted him by drawling, "How're ya doin'?" Replied the boss: "I not yet doing. I just get here...
Musically, they're all really just getting started. Michael plays drums. He says he is learning piano too. "It's not hard. You just have to put your mind to what you doin'; that's all there is to it." Marlon says in his soft child-voice that he's a dancer, and Jermaine adds that Marlon is known around the house as "Las Vegas" because of his prowess with cards. It turns out that Jermaine is a poet, and that he and Michael (Michael does everything) draw pictures of people. Jackie likes to recall...
...have to try very hard to expose the poverty of the culture. The girls, the musicians have the same things to say over and over. Homosexuals backstage are beaten up and ridiculed. Lonely groupies talk about the good times when they were travelling with the big name groups, "doin' far out stuff, staying at the best hotels." But rarely does the camera do more than catalogue meetings and encounters, jumping from one group to another, from town to town, until even this straightforward visual style is muddled...