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Spike and Mary Lou sidled closer. "Workin' in the fillin' station.... too many tasks... check the tires... check the oil... wash the windows... Dollar gas... too much monkey business... too much monkey business." It was time for bump and grind. Bump at the elbow. Bump and grind at the hip. The band speeded up. The crowd licked their lips, joined the action, sipped more beer. It was Mary Lou and Spike all alone, center stage. Bump, Bump, Bump. And grind. "Too much monkey business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petering Out | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

...send me no doctor fillin me up with all of those pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: LADY SOUL SINGING IT LIKE IT IS | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...service and turned down by almost every paper in town. About to call it quits, he noticed the Journal on a newsstand. "Well, that's one I haven't tried," he thought. He was hired on a temporary basis, and claims that he still is a temporary fillin, though now he happens to be editor. Occasionally he asks Publisher Barney Kilgore: "When am I going to be permanent?" Kilgore puts him off: "Do you think you've adjusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Folksiness on Wall Street | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...characteristic that the President scheduled a major speech for this week before the nation's top businessmen at New York's Economic Club without anyone's having thought much about what he would say. Thus a top Kennedy aide, when asked last week for an advance fillin, simply shrugged: "I haven't even started to think about that speech yet. I've had so many other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Constant Issue | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Last-minute substitutions are something of a specialty with Roberta. She made her Met debut as a fillin, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, three years ago. Since then she has answered several other fire calls, including two for Gilda in Rigoletto (for Hilde Gueden and Genevieve Warner), one for Adele in Fledermaus (for Virginia MacWatters). But Soprano Peters is more than a high-class fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Firehouse Coloratura | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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