Word: cowboy
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...DIED. CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN, 81, cowboy-hatted roots guitarist and fiddler who continually protested against being labeled a bluesman, insisting that his fusion of jazz, country, R&B and Cajun defied categorization; in Orange, Texas. He died 10 days after evacuating his home in Slidell, Louisiana, which housed half a century of memorabilia, and was razed by Hurricane Katrina. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in 1949 at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped on stage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes from customers," he boasted...
...reflection of Kenny's character" (though we're not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other about a matter vital to the marriage, like a plot to gain citizenship--or, perhaps, that the bare feet and cowboy hat weren't really just for special occasions...
Standing in the floodwaters last week, his cowboy boots muddied, New Orleans' coroner was philosophical about the future, talking death one minute, jazz and grilled oysters the next. Minyard claims that his re-election, eight times in a row, is attributable mostly to his trumpet playing at Preservation Hall, where they call him Dr. Jazz. "I'm native born in New Orleans, live in the French Quarter, been here all my life," he says. "We've recovered from the Civil War, from yellow-fever epidemics, from hurricanes--the hurricane of 1915, and the hurricane of 1947 that like to have...
...This catastrophe cowboy mentality has afflicted many government officials in the Gulf Coast as well, from local mayors to federal bureaucrats, who too often seem to produce the kind of less than effective evacuation plans we saw before Katrina. Granted, both residents and officials were working under a tight schedule before Katrina gained Category 4 strength and made landfall between Biloxi and New Orleans. And there is only so much people can do to prepare for a storm of Katrina's millennial magnitude. But there's a growing concern that as our hurricanes increase in ferocity, as scientists are warning...
...Barrymore's defiant character in the hurricane classic Key Largo, who like James Mosley was wheelchair-bound-used to share that cultural machismo. But when a storm like Katrina moves in these days, people in the Keys, even the poor, are usually seen moving out. It may not look cowboy brave-but it's citizen smart...