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Variety Sonny and Cher are gone, but Donny and Marie will be back on ABC. This year Sister Osmond will forsake her clean-teen look for boots, bobbed hair and slinky high fashion. Joining the song-and-skit brigade this season: Richard Pryor, who will bring his jive, streetwise humor to a new NBC variety series, and Redd Foxx, who will sanitize his stand-up act for his own weekly show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...many ways there has been an about-face from the slurred-stoned cynicism of earlier album tracks like "Boogie Smoogie" the song about a juke box 'n jive joint during the Dog Days. The love-song "Neon Nights" seems to reflect the band's one-up-in-the-world status and if the romance of "two crazy people" on "a neon night" seems too-slick and too sacharin you can just see it as a stage, a step, that most groups take away from their beginnings...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Loud, Hot 'Lanta Honky-Tonk | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

Unless you like the new Buddha-ized version of formerly great drummer Norman Connors. Like other back-up men to Pharoah Sanders, Connors had a strong reputation as a hard driving drummer. But Buddha has apparently taken that away from him. At least he doesn't jive around with that disco stuff...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Jazz | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

Divorced. Flip Wilson, 42, jive-cracking comedian of assorted aliases, including the soul-searching, money-grabbing Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now; and Blondell Pittman Wilson; after 17 years of common-law marriage, two sons, two daughters; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1976 | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...Virginia, a superliberated black law student who next week will announce her candidacy for Congress. Ginny will also continue to suffer the affections of Clyde, a jive-spouting lay-about who buys a new Buick with silver-fox fur seats because "I'm into comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOONESBURY: Drawing and Quartering for Fun and Profit | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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