Word: shit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Finley: "Those complaints are a lot of horse shit. The guys are a bunch of spoiled brats. There isn't a phone in the clubhouse because it's against major league rules to have a phone so handy ?gamblers could call. We stay in the same hotels as other teams. I'm not paying $5,000 extra for a charter flight when the team is already going first class. If they want stamps, they can have as many as they need if they'll bring the mail up to the office. I know one thing. They...
...sound is enveloping and strong. It's refreshing to have a female vocalist who isn't easily thrust into categories, especially weak and wispy ones. But Nelson is limited potential at best even so, and if a performance last spring was any indication, she just doesn't give a shit after all these years. She growled at the audience, growled at the band, and ran through a set that felt like she did it a hundred times a month. "Back To Tennessee" was an okay song; there were a couple of soulful Redding-like numbers that she steeped...
...true tragedy and mawkish melodrama." Complaining that "one of the great talents of all time has been treated like an assembly-line butcher," the newly unemployed Quinn snapped: "Just say that I am more proud of being in a failure by Tennessee Williams than in a hit by a shit...
...hooked on the notion that he was a powerful creative force ("All these people spend all this time creating masterpieces. I could never believe they took themselves so seriously") or more conscious of creating the mystique of an artist around him ("I hate that. It's all bull shit"). Instead, he has watched his newer songs reach heights of popularity on the charts and is content, at last, to enjoy the fruits of his not-too-arduous labors...
...foul. Late at night and early in the morning, members of the group walk the avenues and alleys of their neighborhood, meting out their own law-and-order to those they consider criminals. "Every now and then, folks dealing in dope get their doors kicked in and their shit messed up," says one member of the unit. "When we find someone doing wrong, we wear his ass out. A purse-snatcher might end up with two broken hands." The vigilantes, however, do not always escape unscathed. So far, two have been stabbed while making their rounds...