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...that enables everyman to write his own script. It has not only nourished a proliferating vocabulary that threatens to outdate any dictionary of American slang within months; as well, it catalyzes an egalitarian, anti-authoritarian philosophy that has never been expressed in this fashion before. In the TV series Movin' On, hit records like C.W. McCall's Convoy (which sold 5 million copies and is to be made into a film) and the movie White Line Fever -all of them CB oriented-the good guys v. the cops is a basic theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: THE BODACIOUS NEW WORLD OF C.B. | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...letting things simmer just a minute. He is about to let go and he hears a voice, loud and gleeful, come right out of the stands clear across to him: "Hey, man-you're the fourth-best guard in the league right now, and you ain 't movin' up 'till somebody dies!" Frazier blows the shot right there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...nothing difficult about these songs; they've got volume, crispness, precision, but no life. In fact, nothing really happens until midway through "My Wife," when Townshend finds a riff he can work on, Moon and Entwhistle lock into a solid rhythm and Daltry sees fit to chant "keep on movin'" over the top of it all. It brings a noticeable surge in intensity. "My Generation" is similarly structured and similarly extended, but awkward because it no longer incorporates pieces of Tommy. Townshend resurrects it by adding a simple solo to the break...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Quadrophenia: Townshend Redux | 12/13/1973 | See Source »

Time keeps movin' on Friends, they turn away I keep movin' on, but I never found out why I keep pushin' so hard an' babe, I keep try'n To make it right to another lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...mirror: "Bap! Bap! Bap! I jab him once, twice, three times. Dance away. I move in again. Bam. Bam. Bam. I hit him five times. He hits me one time. I back away. I'm moving around him. Bim. Bim. Bim. I get him again. He's movin' in, ain't reaching me because he's too small to reach me. He's reachin' and strainin' with those hooks, and they're getting longer and longer. And now he's lunging and jumping, and that's when I started popping and smoking. I'm looking for the opening, lookin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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