Word: jugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although his arsenal includes a slider, a medium-speed curve and a jug-handle changeup as well as a fastball?all of which he can deliver either overhand, three-quarter-arm or sidearm?McLain's main assets are speed and control. Cuteness and cunning are foreign to him: he rarely wastes a pitch, and he does not try to sucker batters into swinging at bad balls. "Control is God-given," Denny claims. "Like a good arm. You don't develop it, and I thank God He gave me both." Last month, in a typical McLain display of power and accuracy...
...assuage his social conscience. After a few days on the beat, Peter meets a carefree pusher named Quince (Jack Watson), his two sadistic sons, a detective with a badge for a heart (Jeremy Kemp), and a libidinous bird named Fred (Susan George). Soon he's up to his jug ears in trouble. Quince wants to fix him, the detective wants to corrupt him, and Fred just plain wants...
...matrix of these Negro work songs, field hollers and spirituals of the 19th century sprang the first crude country blues. It was spread by bardic singers with guitars or harmonicas?beggars, itinerant farm laborers, members of jug bands and medicine or minstrel shows. Then, with the Negro migrations to Northern cities in the early decades of the 20th century, the blues gathered a more elaborate accompaniment around itself (sometimes a jazz group) and moved into theaters, dance halls and recording studios. This was the era of Bessie Smith's classic records. By the 1930s, a new style was forged around...
...friend holding up a two-finger V to his compatriot Pukes. Someone leans out an eighth-floor window: "Fucking Puke." Carmen, I am told, has Jocks in it too. We go back to Carmen and see a Puke's room where the Jocks broke in and threw a jug of his fermenting cider through a picture window. Everything was knocked on the floor; two lamps were broken. The next day the elevator walls are graffiti-ed with "Egg the Jock House...
After this version was published in England last fall (TIME, Nov. 3), Graves was attacked not only for trying to break the spell of the famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves...