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...Cavs were helped by the scoring of Jim Cleamons and Austin Carr, who had 18 and 17 points respectively...
BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir was grinding out acid rock, and David Allen Coe was in prison. Nobody, least of all Jerry Jeff, would have guessed that he was starting a musical movement of sorts, still less that all those people would be drawn into...
After all, he was a scruffy kid whose only claim to fame was one hit single, "Mr. Bojangles," and that several years before. His voice wasn't much, kind of scratchy and whiney and not very melodic, and the only reason he got any attention at all in Austin was that the competition was so sparse. Besides, his music was sort of eclectic--maybe some would say incoherent--and it didn't really fit into any category. It wasn't exactly country, but it wasn't folk, and it was a long way from rock...
...since then. Now that kind of music is known as "progressive country," and the people who put it out are among the best-selling artists in popular music--people like Nelson and Jennings, not to mention Emmylou Harris, Michael Murphy, and B.W. Stevenson. Nashville has faded in importance, and Austin is one of the busiest country music centers around, the home of several stars, and the owner of a sound all its own. Longhairs who used to wear peace medallions and listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton now wear Wranglers, cowboy boots and Stetsons and spend their Saturday nights...
Unlike Steve Austin, who regularly uses his brawn to brain villains, Jaime seldom uses her strength to do more than defensively trip or trick her opponents. ABC also seems to have decided that she can get along without a coherent plot. The typical show seems to be a collection of barely related episodes intended mainly to display Jaime's powers: she stops a rampaging elephant by tugging on its chain; uses her foot to brake an out-of-control car; leaps onto a second-story fire escape to avoid danger...