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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatives came from," explains Prine. The relatives migrated to the Chicago area where John was born, raised (with summers back in Kentucky) and given a high school education of sorts. "But we never took much to the city," says Prine, whose twangy accent, parted-in-the-middle haircut and beltless blue jeans mark him as a Chicago hillbilly. After high school there was the post office, the Army, marriage and the post office again. He had lots of time to "file away material in my mind until I could compress it all together into one song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Collar Blues | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

Joan of Arc has been many people to many writers. To Al Carmines, the off-Broadway clergyman-showman (TIME, May 22), she is an idealist with a square build, a butch haircut, a belting voice, and a yen for planting bombs in public toilets for the sake of the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unemployed Saint | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...Purtan and said: "Listen to this." Since then, Purtan says, "people have been going crazy, calling up to play Old Folks at Home, Happy Birthday and everything else." One Detroit lawyer is being driven to distraction, Purtan says, because his phone number corresponds to the hallowed "shave and a haircut, two bits" refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Phoney Tunes | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...seen in the ragged days of the Diem regime. In Hue last month, one exasperated army commander assembled his troops and police near a banner proclaiming that "vagrants, thieves and burglars are the nemesis of society." His crackdown orders included an instruction that every cowboy arrested be given a haircut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Vietnamaization: Is It Working? | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...resources are inadequate." Russell himself not only wrote the treatment and screenplay for The Boy Friend and negotiated the $2.4 million financing, but also knew every bar of the music, checked every detail of props, makeup, costumes, even hair styles. He escorted Twiggy to her hairdresser to check her haircut for The Boy Friend, later embarked on a feud with her and her bearded mentor and manager Justin de Villeneuve. Twiggy at first called the whole experience "a nightmare." but now that the "cooling off" period is about over, she speaks more cheerfully of those days: "He believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Russell: Spoofing the Spoof | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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