Word: fuzzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonsense-accusation sequence is a suspect-baiting device Friedkin picked up from Detective Eddie Egan, the cop on whom Doyle's character is based, who plays the narcotics division chief to Russo and Doyle (Gene Hackman) in Connection and who is soon to star in a film vehicle called Fuzz. The incident goes under the generic title "police harrassment" and is, no doubt, only a generalized adaptation from many such episodes in Egan's career...
...course there was always the classic "You Keep Me Hanging On", a hit so big that they were never able to duplicate it. The new arrangements were made long and drawn out by the liberal use of a screaming, powerful Hammond organ and a perhaps too heavy use of fuzz box and wah-wah pedal. The songs were full of three part vocal harmonies and surprising changes in rhythm. But most of all they were psychedelic...
...down the barriers of traditional blues that Clapton had built around the group, and almost single-handedly raised the Yardbirds to the status of the avant-garde group of the sixties. He was the first English blues guitarist to make extensive use of the wah-wah pedal and the fuzz box (electronic devices for manipulating the sound of a guitar). Beck's first album with the Yardbirds, A Rave Up, contained three rock classics: "I'm A Man," "You're A Better Man Than I," and "The Train Kept A-Rollin...
...what remains of the counterculture, pig has become a term of derision reserved for male chauvinists or the fuzz. To Rock Musician James Taylor (TIME cover, March 1), however, pig means only happiness. Taylor's pet sow Mona took first prize (swine division) in the 110th Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair, and later had the ultimate award bestowed upon her: a purple ribbon for being the best animal in the entire fair. Said the elated Taylor: "I'm as proud of her as I can possibly...
...evolved into an untouchable symbol of righteousness to most citizens. The chairman of a House Appropriations Subcommittee often bragged that he never cut Hoover's budget requests. Films, television series and books chronicled the bureau's crime-fighting exploits. The bureau's image has begun to fuzz of late, thanks to Hoover's outspoken beliefs and unwillingness to brook criticism from any quarter. He admitted that he had not even spoken to Robert Kennedy during Kennedy's last six months as Attorney General and labeled Ramsey Clark "a jellyfish" and "a softie...