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what nonconformist group did london's daily express call 'the new barbarians' in 1958?

what billy joel album was 1979's top seller?

who received $50,000 in back salary when he was released from a russian prison in 1962?

'take the load off fanny'?

'beauty, after all, is just a point of view'?