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Concerts abound this week. For example, Friday, the Garden features a triple bill with ZZ Top's "Bible-Belt Boogie"--a rehash of old blues licks at deafening volumes. Also the Blue Oyster Cult (embarrassingly bad) and Duke and the Drivers, listenable though still left in the shadows by J. Geils...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Rock | 10/2/1975 | See Source »

...Bratile St.) has strings of sausage hanging from its ceiling to symbolize its specialty. The sausages on the strings, however, are plastic. You may, at first, find this offensive. But if you train yourself to look down, you'll find ZZ not so bad. The sausages are inexpensive, and the dark beer is really good...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Mary Quant, Mitzou of Madrid, Ariel of Paris. Sears (1965 sales: $6.9 billion) calls its collection "Junior Route 1966," describes it as "young, racy, right in style." The catalogue companies have not, of course, completely forsaken the good old-fashioned bestsellers. For livestock raisers, Sears still offers its "Ee-Zz Off Dehorner and Castration Set." Wards, which printed its first one-page mailorder "catalogue" in 1872, carries men's high-topped shoes for $12.97-but it does a much faster business in "bold, British-inspired demiboots" for teen-aged boys at $9.77. For the folk-singing set, the catalogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Where It's Always Spring | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...class sections run up only to row PP. Rows QQ to ZZ are in the colonnade, where yard-thick pillars block large parts of the playing field from view. So the colonnade has been left to overflow freshmen and graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls to Adorn Traditionally Male Cheering Section Seats This Fall | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...class sections run up only to row PP. Rows QQ to ZZ are in the colonnade, where yard-thick pillars block large parts of the playing field from view. So the colonnade has been left to overflow freshmen and graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Will Infiltrate Hitherto Celibate Stands | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

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