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...lyrics and the beat implied-sexual intercourse in a car, making love to the rhythm of the windshield wipers." A tougher test is the Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction, which has sold 4.5 million copies, with Lead Singer Mick Jagger wailing, "I'm tryin' to make some girl." Difficulty was, Tagger's diction is so slurred that many stations unwittingly played the record; others bleeped out the offending phrase. But, gloats Jagger, "They didn't understand the dirtiest line." That is the one where the girl pleads: "Baby, better come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...Liuzzo, he cried, "was up there singin' 'we will overcome, we will overcome, we will overcome.' What in God's name were they tryin' to overcome? To overcome God himself? And do unto the white people what God said you shall not do because there'll be thorns in your eyes, thorns in your flesh; if you intermarry with a servile race, then you shall be destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: The Trial | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...rations, the hero inhabits an Eden teeming with rivers of bourbon,sierras of sirloin and herds of gorgous girls who will do almost anything for a Hershey bar. Happily, there is a serpent in this paradise: an admiral (Melvyn Douglas) more concerned about congressional hearings ("They're tryin' to scrap the Navy!") than he is about the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Praise of Cowardice | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...heard and recorded on the Oakland Approach Control tape." It was garbled. The controller snapped: "Say again." There was no answer. Even after laboratory analysis of the radio tape, the best the investigators could do was come up with a message: "Skipbers shot. We're ben shot. Tryin' ta help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Death Wish | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...rare moments, Miller is funny. When Harry's ex-girl seeks him out in the prostitute's apartment, Harry snarls at her: "Are ya tryin' to break up a home?" But mainly the dialogue is dull and dead. In the end, Harry is dead too, and gone to limbo, where he tries hopelessly to ignite the stage with a flaming speech: "I don't belong. I don't want to belong. I don't want to kill anybody to save the world. It's not my problem. I got bigger problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Tropic of Corn | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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