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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dennis Franz, another Hill Street veteran), teaches his charges the subtler aspects of the game: "Your spitball isn't named exactly right. You could use your Vaseline, your oils, your earwax, or what I think is primo, the gooey white kind of spit that conies after drinking a lotta milk." Later, when an umpire spies a foreign substance on the ball, the freshly instructed young pitcher (Perry Lang) is not only humiliated but disarmed. When he returns home after the game, he discovers his wife in a compromising squeeze play with the cable TV installer. Shocked and dumbfounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Good Field, Good Hit | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...celebratory no doubt. Byrne didn't learn all about African music for nothing. And it's fun to boot, thanks to drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth's joray into rap in rhythm with Tom Tom Club The Heads what's more, steal a whole lotta licks from out of the past Do you want your funk served up hot and gooey, in the form of Delta Blues' Swamp" will please your musical palate How about a little down-home gospel hour, Slippery People" ought to do the trick A Little street fun in order' The dancing bass...

Author: By Michael J. Abramoute, | Title: Hypnotized | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

...seven others, initially slicked up with overdubbing, heard here "raw"; 77 more tracks, released pretty much at random after the Sun catalogue was sold in 1969, are presented in original mono sound; there are also 60 never-issued alternate takes of songs like Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and eight cuts never released before, including a lubricious version of the Pat Boone groaner, Love Letters in the Sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Few Rounds with the Killer | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...could well have acted just like him. Four times married (and not always with the benefit of previous divorce), a few times rich, many times broke, Lewis was briefly, with Presley away in the Army and the youth of America hot-wired by the strains of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, the Absolute Supreme Being of rock. But scandal brought him low: the British press cooked up a fine frenzy over Jerry Lee's marriage to his 13-year-old cousin Myra Brown. Women married young back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Few Rounds with the Killer | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (Southcoast/MCA). Joe Ely knows where to find the rockabilly roots along those back-country roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of 1981: Music | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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