Word: juking
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...poetic banality of a George Segal environment: the grimy interior of a small soda shop, complete with three tattered barstools, and "oldies" juke box and an empty cigarette machine: its general bleakness is dimly lit by a purple noon glow. Here, in the black heart of the Brooklyn werehouse district, on a December night in 1962, a German immigrant shopkeeper, a schizoid ghetto youth and a Jewish NYU coed encounter each other and, in the course of two hours (the action is continuous), slowly, painstakingly post off the one another's marks, wrestling out each other's hidden guilts...
...decisions need to be made over again, and we must make them so that we can return to living with renewed moral security. And truck-driving music can appeal to us as a celebration of such a normal life, even if we can't tell a jimmy from a juke box ourselves...
Second floor improvements include the installation of pin ball machines, foosball games and a juke box. A pool hall on the second floor opened yesterday...
...bars, the Miami and Amigo, have recently opened. Signboards in front proclaim that "American-style" food and music are offered inside. Within, the blaring juke-boxes, over-priced drinks, and aggressive bargirls familiar to habitues of American haunts in Saigon and Bangkok are very much in evidence. "Before the coup the girls solicited you in French," says one long-time Phnom Penh resident; "now they start off in English...
...Buzz Clifford, one assumes, didn't groove to cutting lawns and washing cars. But he had to find some way to earn money for malteds and the juke box. Baby sitting proved to be the answer. He sang about one of the toddlers in a memorable tune by what name...