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They ain 't had any learnin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Little Crimes Against Nature | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...good buddies" are sure learnin' fast how to outfox Smokey the Bear. The sophisticated way to beat speeding tickets is to use a miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Foiling the Fuzz | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...course, I said the same thing about Tanya Tucker when she started out at age thirteen. Her latest is called Lovin' and Learnin' (MCA), and she may get plenty of the former, but she can use a lot more of the latter. This album suffers from trying to make her sound less country, which is as hopeless as trying to make Frank Church sound less pompous. The worst numbers (it's a tough choice) are "Ain't That a Shame", a pathetic attempt at a rock number, and "Makin' Love Don't Always Make Love Grow" (honest, folks). Tanya...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Albums | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

...different kind of fantasy she's offering, a dream of acquisition and her next song, "Explain It," never goes beyond that same surface of acquiring a cosmopolitan experience; all it says is that it's hare to explain to old friends "About the people and places you're learnin...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Searching for the Queen of Hearts | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...know what the police are learnin' from our demonstrations?" the Rev. Andrew Young, a top aide to Martin Luther King, asked a nearly all-black audience in Montgomery, Ala., last week. "We're showin' 'cm that the price of beatin' niggers is goin...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: Police Compete for Power in Alabama | 3/24/1965 | See Source »

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