Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years earlier. Their three-ring extravaganza in a vaulted coliseum whose ceiling receded into darkness hyperstimulated the senses of a ten-year-old. Brightly clad acrobats, new smells, band music and peanuts demanded simultaneous attention. To get back to my seat, I parted the madding crowd by holding my cotton candy out in front and marching straight ahead...
...list of corporate contributions and NEA matching funds, and, in fact, I do. The Big Apple is a not-for-profit organization; a donation of $2500 gains admission to the Ringmaster's Circle. And although The Big Apple is officially non-profit, the concession stand rakes it in. A cotton candy costs four dollars, an 11-oz bottle of water costs $2.50 (more than a soda or apple juice...
Every song on the album is well worth repeated listenings. "Prodigal Daughter (Cotton Eyed Joe)" is a quiet country number about the double standard accorded to men and women and about pregnancy and abortion: "Look, here comes a prodigal son/ Fetch him a tall drink of water/ But there's none in the cup/ because he drak it all up/ Left for a prodigal daughter/ Singing, Oh Cotton Eyed Joe/Had not've been for the Cotton Eyed Joe/I'd have been married a long time ago," The sad harmonies match the pain and irony of the song without being overdone...
...William Cotton Damon could not list these sports as hobbies, and he apologized: "His type of business calls for all the physical exercise any man needs. So he has never had to learn golf...
...liberal in two senses: with a small l in that his sensibility is humane and broad-minded (last month he went to Chicago and Detroit at his own expense to do free shows for the unemployed and the homeless); with a capital L in that he doesn't really cotton to conservative Republicans ("I mean, these kids are 26, they're Republicans, and they own a Lincoln Town Car. Not even a Fiat...