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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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IF STEVE BRILL were the type who sings in the shower, he would never have written a book which accomplishes the remarkable: pissing off both Frank Fitzsimmons, boss of the Teamsters Union, and Pete Camerata, leading light of the dissident group, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And the American Dream Did the Rest | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Brill responds that the press over-covers the dissidents anyway, far out of proportion to their number (PROD and TDU combined have roughly 10,000 members out of 2.3 million Teamsters). Brill says the dissidents really wanted him to make a hero, "a new Sylvester Stallone," out of Pete Camerata...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And the American Dream Did the Rest | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

LAMENT IF YOU MUST the end of Elvis Costello's youthful spontaneity, the two-minute rockers flowing endlessly from his pen and mouth. At least he hasn't lost his energy and style--he's just turned them in a slightly different direction. Whether he goes off the deep end...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Elvis in 1984 | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...The corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Elvis in 1984 | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Better cut off all identifying labels

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Elvis in 1984 | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

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