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Royko's account leads inevitably to the 1968 national Democratic Convention, when the delegates were welcomed by signs proclaiming YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN DALEY COUNTRY! Daley was misguided, Royko says, to order his cops to shag Abbie Hoffman's Yippies out of the south end of Lincoln Park. The city, he contends, could not have chosen a better place to quarantine the protesters than the one they chose themselves. Instead, the police stormed in and all the world's TV audience gaped at the resulting riots. The author, indeed, may be guilty of some small taint...
Holmes put down his teacup, filled his pipe with shag and commenced...
Opera singers, like athletes, are nuts for conditioning-only nuttier. Where Mickey Mantle may shag a few fly balls, Baritone Robert Merrill stands on his head. Where Mickey Wright will hit a few off the practice tee, Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias gargles champagne and does a belly dance. And for a preperformance pick-me-up, singers will have none of that sissy business of pep talks. They eat garlic...
...think the Beatles are one of the best things to come to America since jazz. Their music is different, but not if you understand the feel. We teen-agers love the Beatles, shag-mopped, screaming and pop-wailers that they...
...despite the perennial popularity of Sherlock Holmes, dripping shag tobacco from his well-blackened clay pipe; despite the graceful pipemanship of Bing Crosby; even despite the theories of Freud about what pipe smoking really means-pipe smoking is on the decline...