Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio and TV talk-show host who made an institution of the insult; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. A World War II Marine with a wooden leg and a chip on his shoulder, Pyne devoted his programs largely to hucksters and kooks, whom he ridiculed with such niceties as "Jerk," "Meathead," and "Go gargle with razor blades." He delighted in saying, "I'm not a nice guy, and I don't want to be." At his peak in 1966, Pyne's programs occupied 27 hours of air time each week, and earned him $200,000 a year...
...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...
...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...