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...title Exclusive, the President of the United States murders the baby his girlfriend refused to abort. In the film Escape from L.A., the Chief Executive orders the assassination of his own daughter, while in the movie version of Primary Colors, John Travolta is slated to play the lyin', cheatin' and stealin' First Stud. By today's standards of popular culture, Richard Nixon was a saint. Jail to the Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TROUBLE WITH CHARACTER | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

That's courage of a kind. On her new album she explores its isotope: the courage to throw the bum out. On Take It Back, a song that rocks like the house band in a sports bar, she tells off a man with a cheatin' heart: "Tonight laying on the street/ Babe, your bag is packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Heartland | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...presence on the bill highlighted his own drift into rock, in abundant evidence on the Strong Persuader album, where the blues give no quarter but are suddenly danceable. "Lyrically," as Cray hears it, "the songs are blues stories in the sense that they relate with lost love, sneakin' around, cheatin' and things like that, but the music isn't traditional blues music. We're stepping out into new territories. Smoking Gun almost sounds like a rock-'n'-roll song." On the album's opening cut, hard-edged guitar and lyrical economy set up another variation on jealousy and revenge: "Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shots From a Smoking Gun | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Disintegration in the celebrity spotlight is the theme of a modest, moving piece, Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave. Williams, the country singer responsible for such hits as Your Cheatin' Heart, Jambalaya, Half as Much and Hey, Good Lookin', was a prototype of the doomed, dark star: drink and drugs sent him on an inevitable trajectory to death at 29 in 1953. Maynard Collins' play is conceived as Williams' last concert, in which he performs 22 of his songs while telling his version of an entertainer's life and self-inflicted hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Going to London to See the Queen? | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

Chet Flippo, 37, after the publication party for Your Cheatin' Heart, his biography of Country Singer Hank Williams: "I'd like to thank Hank for making this party possible and the IRS for making it necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1981 | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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