Word: carterisms
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...outsider, in a role requiring lots of makeup. Oscar loves that: see recent awards for Nicole Kidman in The Hours and Theron in Monster. In fact, I've just talked myself into saying she'll snatch the prize from till-now front-runner Reese Witherspoon, whose turn as June Carter Cash is lovely but clearly a secondary role in Walk the Line. Oh, and one other thing: Keira Knightley...
DIED. JANETTE CARTER, 82, autoharp-playing singer-songwriter and last surviving child of country music's original Carter Family; in Kingsport, Tenn. In 1927, her parents A.P. and Sara, along with aunt Maybelle--mother to June Carter Cash--formed the Carter Family, whose harmonious folk melodies were hugely influential in country music. After A.P. Carter died in 1960, Janette dedicated herself to preserving the musical heritage of her family and of Appalachia, creating the Carter Family Fold, a museum where, until recently, she gave weekly concerts...
...very real suffering endured by generations of very real Indians because of very real injustices caused by very real American aggression that destroyed very real tribes. He isn't the first to do it. In 1991 the American Booksellers Association gave its book-of-the-year award to Forrest Carter's Cherokee-themed memoir, The Education of Little Tree, despite the documented fact that Carter was really Asa Carter, a rabid segregationist and the author of George Wallace's infamous war cry, "Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever...
...Blanc said. “We’re here to implement the decisions that they do make.”Many groups have sent large delegations of observers to monitor the elections, Blanc said. The European Union plans to send 200 observers, and the Carter Center and National Democratic Institute will send 100 observers. The latter delegation will be led personally by former President Jimmy Carter. The IFES mission will not end on election day. Blanc, who has worked on policy and electoral issues in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo, said that his group is committed to working with...
...prison sentence, Carter said, “I sat in that cell feasting on hatred for ten years...