Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juicy, scat-sung Van Morrison-type song in which Springsteen wants to steal away his girl friend from her parents to spend what seems to be a life-long communal orgy in the hangouts of New York. The song builds up to a seemingly final crescendo with terrific fast loud chorus. Where can he go from here? But the music keeps on--you feel like shouting. Then all of a sudden it is happening, the entire band is standing up there in the studio, chanting "HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY"--it is like the Ohio State football team has just...
...fast were we going, Kenny?" "Maybe a hundred. Little over. That's as fast as she'll go with a passenger and no faring...
...state trooper on the interstate. "I didn't think he could see me in the rain," said Kenny, "but I couldn't outrun him so I pulled over. I had been runnin without lights, but he was sitting by a bridge and heard this sound go by real fast, although he couldn't see anything. He caught up with me after a couple miles and that was that. I told him, 'I just had a big argument with my wife and I had to bust out.' He believed it. Those troopers, they understand a guy with a problem like that...
...alcoholic tide has been pushed higher by the fast-selling, inexpensive pop wines, which disguise their alcoholic content with sweet fruit flavors. These wines make the transition from soda pop to alcohol just one easy step. "Kids seem to look on the stuff as a zippy, sophisticated soft drink," says Houston's Bruner Lee, education director for the Texas Council on Alcoholism. "But this 'kiddie stuff,' this pop wine, contains 9% alcohol-about twice as much as beer." After the pop wine phase is over, the kids often go on to much stronger drink...
...tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage of such relatively frequent drinkers rose during the same time span from 27% to 40%. Senior class girls drank less, but they are catching up fast: 29% said that they drank 50 or more times in 1973, compared with only 14% in 1970. Notes Paul Richards, an adviser at a San Mateo high school: "This school represents a socioeconomic background from welfare to upper middle class, and the drinkers come from all categories...