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Shopkeepers and street vendors have not tempered their renowned surliness; cabbies don't bother to ask "how ya doin', how doya like da city?" as they did in Detroit. The streets, even way downtown in Conventionsville, are dirtier than ever. City Hall's half-hearted promise to round up prostitutes and other undesirables has resulted in increased police presence and improved arrest statistics but little substantial change on the sidewalks and in the alleyways below Times Square, where New York's regulars push and show to keep pace--whether or not there happens to be a convention at the Garden...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'I'm in a New York State of Mind' | 8/12/1980 | See Source »

...short, Easyriders is consistently accessible. Another passage from the magazine's James Reston, Spider: "I'm about to pay my taxes, folks, so I'll strap another one on ya. The Feds just gave a professor $100,000 to figure out how pigeons remember things. Shit, I've always wanted to know that--haven...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Ahhh Jeff, we've got a few boxes of six-inch gaskets for Long Island. Send Marty out will ya?" a voice said over the dispatcher's radio. The dispatcher poked a pencil into Marty. He rocked back to the floor, grabbed his tin and a piece of paper, and ambled out of the trailer. "Yew comin' too boy?" he said to me with a harkening drawl. "Awright...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...wives and his uneasy relationship with his audience, which is alternately exhorted, cajoled and mocked. None of the dynamic exaltation of the Who and their fans for the Pinkies. To Waters, the audience is just another barrier, another obstacle to his exquisitely indelicate communion with his inner being. "So ya/ Thought ya/ Might like to go to the show," he sneers at some hapless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pinkies on the Wing | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Ya" (Yeah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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