Publicity touts Wilson as a "Beat," but considering the time frame - the '60s and' 70s - he's more of a hippie, even if he was influenced by the older Beats.— Westword | Complete Issue
The solo thing was gonna be a 31-page story called "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me" with pop music of the '30s that had a framing device about me in the hippy days.— The Comics Journal
Blondie are well balanced with the new wave Plastic Letters and Eat to the Beat, along with some of the pure fun found on— Epinions Recent Content for Home
The Wire review claimed this bore a palpable influence from Big Beat, a notion so charmingly improbable it ntrigued me enough to give this lot the time of the day for the first time since … that really dismal show they did at Bowery Ballroom, most likely.— blissblog
New York Times Reporter Moves to Cybersecurity Beat -- Veteran New York Times technology reporter John Markoff, long one of the paper's main Apple watchers, is changing beats to cover the intersection of computation and science, as well as the social implications of technology and so-called cybersecurity and cyberwarfare.— TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us

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