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That's why he liked it when all them experts picked Brown and Yale to win, 'cuz then he could just sorta breeze along in private, doin' his thing behind closed doors, so to speak, without no one lookin'. But events, well they forced Joe to show his hand early, and now while he's all happy to be in first place, and all, he knows he's still got a big month ahead...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: "Hey, Ya Know..." | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...Boogie's not a meanin', boogie's a feelin'. Boogie takes the question marks outa yer eyes, puts little exclamation marks in they place. Are ya on my beam? Boogie's when the rest of the world is lookin' you straight in the eye sayin' you'll never be able ta make it and ya got your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...then there's the self-consciously artistic way Horovitz sandwiches the action between the refrain of a popular song wafting in from the wings. The sappy, off-key message is that Murph and Joey, poor lost crime-ridden souls, are "lookin' for your door and can't find it." Horovitz's technique is too glib, too conventional...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Horovitz's Complaint | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...President Ford declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Politics: No Laughing Matter | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...Lookin' Over From Your Side," for example, a Harlem-dweller suggests that if whites lived in a rat-infested slum, they too might be moved to riot. "Time Brings About Change" and "They Keep Comin'," on the other hand, are both paens to black progress, one bitter and funny, the other proudly insistent. In the former, one soloist pokes fun at the discomfort busing is causing whites. "Once we walked nine miles to school, while they took the bus," he sings. "Now they want to talk to school, and leave the driving...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: STAGE | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

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