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...know, these people ain't goin' nowhere," the idiot laughed. "I work for the 'T' ya know, huh. Ya know they tried to take somethin' from our contract, huh. But we striked. We said, 'No money, no work.' Huh. One guy chickened out -- he drove a bus in Brighton. If we ever find out his name, tousands of workers a gonna get a piece of his body. Huh. My old man, he's one of the big guys in the 'T,' ONE OF THE BIG GUYS...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...aggression and mayhem that might give even hardened criminals pause. Asked why an ice pick was his preferred weapon in a previous assault, a thin, pale, seemingly fragile boy chuckles and answers, "Internal bleeding." The more they talk, the less monstrous they become: "I wouldn't mind goin' to school if I knew how to read . . . My dreams scare me ... I want somebody to know I been here . . . I can't do nothing. I can't function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: No Limits | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...freshman at Columbia, he became involved in an extracurricular singing group called the Columbia Kingsmen which specialized in pop songs like "Goin' Out of My Head." Through a connection, the group was able to arrange an audience with an agent from Mercury Records at a school concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rich Joffe: Greaser to Grad Student | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...peace, posies and good vibes, for laying down rock music that virtually throttled the listener. Some of the Velvet's music is still among Reed's finest work, including a lengthy threnody called Heroin that is as devastating a drug song ("I'm goin' to try to nullify my life") as anyone has ever written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lou Reed's Nightshade Carnival | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Carr treated the whole filming as one of his continuous giant parties, and as soon as Travolta bought his DC-3, he flew several members of the crew to Las Vegas for a weekend. There was so much jollity on the Paramount set that Jack Nicholson, who was making Goin' South on the next sound stage, sent over a note: "Listen, either put me in the movie, or turn off the noise." The whole thing, says Travolta, was "what the English would call a romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Yellow Brick Road to Profit | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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