Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggests he may quit performing. Then he says he's back in. Now, on his new album, In Pieces, Brooks has made one of his worst decisions by recording a misguided anthem titled American Honky-Tonk Bar Association. In this song, over a beat as rambunctious as a mechanical bull, this most favored of country stylists asks listeners to join with the "hardhat, gunrack, achin'-back, over-taxed, flag-wavin' fun-lovin' crowd," especially if they're upset when their "dollar goes to all of those standing in a welfare line...
...freight yard, U.P.'s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, knows every inch of his eight-mile domain, a moving mosaic of thousands of cars and engines. It is hard by the old ranch where Buffalo Bill Cody assembled his Wild West show (complete with conquered Sioux Chief Sitting Bull) and sent it out on tour aboard U.P. trains. "I don't need an economist to tell me when things are good or bad," Young says as he watches for the flash of headlights over the windswept horizons, signaling long freights coming from east and west. If Young records more...
...ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation in the mills. And the timber industry, despite its bull-roar patriotism, senselessly bypasses U.S. mills and mill workers and exports round, unprocessed logs from private forests to Japan...
...years probably consumed more debate time than any other function of government. Ronald Reagan entered office suggesting that government had no business financing or endorsing cultural activity. A dozen years later, the Republicans left the White House having turned the NEA from a sacred cow into a matador's bull -- and having diverted a third of its nominal allocation to potential pork barrel by state arts councils. Even that wasn't enough for Jesse Helms and Patrick Buchanan, who sought to abolish the NEA for purportedly funding obscenity and irreligious bigotry, based on a handful of controversial grants among...
...Eden? Here's how it goes in one new version of Genesis. Eve: "Yeah, snake, I can eat of these trees, just not the tree of knowledge or the Almighty said I'd be knocked off." Snake: "Nah, sister, he's feeding you a line of bull. You won't die. The Almighty just knows that if you eat from the tree you'll be hipped to what's going down." Say what...