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...Jerk Like Me?" and "Do You Love Me? (Now That I Can Dance)" were done by the same group. What was the group's name...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bruce L. Regan, S | Title: A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

...station attendant, who had been wiping the adjacent window, was staring at me. He must have been in his mid-fifties. His tight, chalky mouth made a sharp contrast with the shiny brown-black of the bags under his eyes. A faded blue Standard cap, the soda-jerk style, was pulled over his bristly gray hair. He was clearly the veteran of many, many thousands of night-shifts at that gas station...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Confessions of a Long-Haried Aristocrat | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Another columnist in good graces is William S. White, a Lyndon Johnson apologist for many years. Though Washingtonians expected White's presidential source to run dry after L.B.J. left, he has won the Administration's approval with continued attacks on "knee-jerk liberals"-a phrase that he contributed to the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE SILENT MAJORITY'S CAMELOT | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...jerk who first started telling the world that apple pie was synonymous with America? William Jennings Bryan? Alexander Graham Bell? Durward Kirby? Well. whoever he was. he would probably insist that Take Me Along, this fall's Agassiz musical, is as American as apple pie. The show has all the credentials: a fourth-of-July setting, young lovers making a marriage pact under a full New England moon, parades, red-white-and-blue razzmatazz, you name it. But despite all that, don't be tricked: Take Me Along is as American as Jack Daniels booze-and all the better...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Take Me Along at Agassiz tonight and tomorrow, Nov, 13-15 | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

...window while the spacecraft plunged through the atmosphere, blunt end down. An orange-yellow glow filled the window as the heat shield became incandescent. Fiery chunks torn from the shield hurtled past the window. Shroud lines could be seen whipping in the wind, and viewers could almost feel the jerk as the or-ange-and-white main chutes opened, abruptly slowing the descent. The scene ended with the sky and clouds gyrating sickeningly, and the colorful chutes appearing and disappearing in the window as the descending Gumdrop swung back and forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Photography at New Heights | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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