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Once he had the audience, he moved on to the newer, more commercial music. He played a new song, "Ghetto Woman," and the now-famous "The Thrill is Gone." The sound from the band was the classic soul sound, particularly through the horns. He moved into a lower profile blues for "Someone Really Loves You," which ended on a magnificent final note, broken falsetto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blues in the Night | 8/4/1972 | See Source »

...that "Americans can-and should-live longer" [July 10]. Live longer? In a society that places so much emphasis on looking youthful? That so casually ignores the elderly? No, thanks. The idea of spending an additional two to three years living in an old-folks home does not thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1972 | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...There is a thin line in entertainment between sensual indulgence and out-and-out voyeurism; an artist transcends these categories by the necessities of his statement or his vision, but the showman has to rely on his taste, and when Hitchcock has consciously worked on the level of a thrill-show con-man--as in The Birds--he's been at his worst...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Frenzy | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

...part, Bailley categorically denies all charges and coolly defended his swinging style. The pictures? "Women get a thrill out of having their pictures taken in the nude. You take them up to your apartment, make love to them, take their picture, make love to them again. It sure as hell beats watching television. Any man in America has the First Amendment right to take pictures like that. Of course, that conflicts with the moral code of the Baptists on the grand jury." The sexual accouterments? "Hell, anybody who digs sex has stuff like that around his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Philip & Astrid & Etc. | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...story fiber-glass statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the Salvation Gardens! Thrill to gladiator fights in the Colosseum! Climb the Tower of Babel! Disappear into the belly of Jonah's Whale! Pet the animals on Noah's Ark! Ride a slave barge across the Sea of Galilee! Visit Heaven and Hell! All this and more for only $6 a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Visit Heaven and Hell! | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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