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Many a parent has been shocked and offended by the lyrical excesses of heavy- metal and rap music. Now Western Merchandisers Inc., an Amarillo-based record-store chain that operates 119 outlets in the Southwest, has taken a drastic step to ensure that albums like As Nasty As We Want to Be by 2 Live Crew do not fall into the hands of minors. Since June 8, the chain has been slapping little green stickers reading 18 TO PURCHASE on sexually explicit records and requiring customers to present proof of age before they can buy them...
...turns out to be a deaf-mute astrological visionary. High up in the Smokies, the menopausal mother of the family keeps hearing a baby crying out in the woods. After she leaves the tent, the audience hears it too. The family tumbles into its car outside a diner near Amarillo, Texas, and resumes squabbling, only this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses about whose bad idea this adventure was, anyway. Then they screech off into the night, ostensibly with...
...Model A. The Gay Notes, 1958 titlists, cruise by in a '58 Edsel. Old quartets endure as much for their catchy names as their sounds. The Gala Lads and Chord Busters are here. The Four Hearsemen, who swept the 1955 sing-off garbed as undertakers, have trekked south from Amarillo. But now they are minus their lead tenor, who has passed...
...that, Pickens has upset many folks in Amarillo, where he has long been a local hero. The controversy stems from his role as chairman of the board of regents of West Texas State University, near Amarillo. In an effort to put the school on a business footing, Pickens has overseen the removal of 19% of the faculty since 1984 and the closing of such departments as anthropology and industrial education...
...wide-open blue sky. It tells of the types drawn to the fast cash and wild living of Gillette--roughnecks, prostitutes, ex-cons--and focuses on the doomed adventures of Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms) and his college-educated nephew Bobby (Andrew Mutnick). They've driven up to Gillette from Amarillo, Texas with high hopes and no money--only to find that 14,000 other guys got there first...