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...been nearly 20 years since the four Brits landed in the U.S. and tumbled helter-skelter into a Manhattan hotel suite, high above police barricades where hundreds of girls were squealing their way into Beatlemania. Pubescent girls, New York City saw last week, are still crazy after all these years: on streets around a midtown hotel, dozens of cops oversaw hundreds of squealing, hysterical teens who were simply dying for a glimpse of the dreamboat singers upstairs. The 80,000 tickets for the group's four concerts last weekend at Madison Square Garden were sold out three days after...
...laissez-faire habits are hard to break. Modern L.A. has known only helter-skelter growth. "There's a vacuum of leadership," says Ted Bruinsma, president...
Johnson notes that while Harvard labs have never had to deal directly with radiation "overexposures," there have been cases of significant and positive exposures. When he came to the EHS in 1959, he says, the radiation protection program was in a "helter skelter state," and there were several violations of federal regulations such as improper disposal of radioactive wastes, licensing violations and the improper use and handling of isotopes...
...errors has all the clarity and precision of a Jackson Pollack canvas. In a great many courses each term, either the classrooms or the teaching staffs prove too small to accommodate the students who show up for the first lectures. The result is by now a biennial ritual: the helter-skelter of relocations and the anxiety of lotteries...
...organ sound overshadowed some very deep rock roots and sensibilities. That acid tongue blighted some very heartfelt emotions and a sophisticated political consciousness Costello understands, as the Clash never will, that political involvement must start on a very personal level, in one's own "Hoover Factory," not in a helter-skelter call for a "White Riot."). Or that grating voice obscured a sincerity hard to find in rock today. But that's what the cliche to which he bound himself--"continued anger," as he recently put it in an interview--did to his talents...