Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
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predictable Christmas standards
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Not how he sang 'em!
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Elvis stopped threatening—not only girls, but the whole of the social order—and began pleading.
Dr. Robin Markowitz
Arguable. His 1961 Hawaii benefit concert was certainly threstening. Moreover, "King Creole," the 1958 film, was certainly threatening to the social order. The film rather successfully challenges the post-war edict to "stay in school." Kids around the globe reacted with vandalism in the theaters, some ripping out the seats in excitement.
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December 1, 1968,
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December 3!!!
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the first time he had ever been seen in public playing the instrument—and
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Wrong. Hawaii 1961
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but a more aesthetically oriented, modernist, impressionist treatment is called for.
Dr. Robin Markowitz
Passive voice. You're never so good that the passive voice is acceptable.