Word: funke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HEAVY METAL. So named because of the massive banks of amplifiers, drums and loudspeakers employed by Grand Funk, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. The music is pure buzz -heavy, simplistic blues played at maximum volume and wallowed in mostly by young teen-agers just experimenting with marijuana, the lingua franca of rock, and perhaps hard drugs...
When Harry attempts to articulate a thought, he chokes on it like a fish bone. But he finally blurts out his heart's desire. He wants to marry Gert and have kids. This puts Gert into a sullen, belligerent funk. She laughs at Harry. He cannot bear to be laughed at. She can not bear to be wanted, needed and loved...
Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...Orpheum Theater, take it. This has to be one of the worst groups to hobble down the pike in a long, long while. Jim Mangrum's performance as a lead singer comes off like a pitiful imitation of Mick Jagger doing a deliberately bad rendition of Grand Funk Railroad's greatest hits...
...Harvard graduate noted that his employer has received ten workers through Funkenstein over the past ten years. "Funk tries to give you a name that has weight," he said, explaining that Funkenstein can only suggest the name of a prospective employer...