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...when she says that "in the feminist movement, there are advantages for both sexes. It's like liberation for both, and not one at the expense of the other." Getting the majority of men to see those advantages, never mind seize them, may take a while. Down in the juke joints, the boys are listening to Merle Haggard sing a tune called Are the Good Times Really Over, a litany of wistful memories from "back when the country was strong." The song yearns for a time "when a girl could still cook and still would." Those boys...
THERE ARE BOWIE FANS and there are Bowie fans. The former enjoy listening to "Changes," and will occasionally drop a quarter in the juke-box to hear "suffragette City." The latter--the true fanatics--get a maniacal gleam in their eyes when the magic name is mentioned. They've memorized His concert slide sequences and all His songs. They "understand" the lyrics. They "enjoy" watching the famous eye-slicing scene. They produced Peoploids in Hunger City...
...walls are decorated with old Washington Senators pennants. If you've had enought of tourists no, make that any kind of people and you want to settle down with a cold beer and listen to the latest hits ("The Night Chicago Died." "Disco Duck") on the penny juke box, this is the place. Draw designs in the dust on the table. Talk as loud as you like, the bartender won't mind. He's dead Has been for days. Time is easy at The Seadrift, the least active commercial establishment in Florida...
Among the few remaining jukebox havens are taverns, especially in the South, where the record players first got their name. Juke was a slang term for disorderly in the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina. The name stuck to the music machines, although manufacturers prefer to call them coin-operated phonographs. However they are known, the once proud symbols of teen-age America may now be on their way to becoming just collectors' items and sources of nostalgia...
...destiny," and was at least half right. So mesmerizing was his performance, so quick in its effect, that California businessmen swamped him like groupies, formed a "Friends of Ronald Reagan" committee, begged him to run for Governor. He had to be pushed. Yet in 1966 the former star of Juke Girl snatched the governorship of California by a million votes from incumbent Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who must have thought he was the victim of an accident. (Reagan also starred in Accidents Will Happen...