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Donald Fagen and Walter Becker composed smooth lyrics for Aja, proving you can combine meaningful lines with structural jazz. In "Deacon Blues" they make us privy to the business of their new album...
There was another important announcement. Hugh Carter, state senator and cousin of the President, came up to lead in prayer and declared that he had just resigned after 31 years as a deacon and 28 years as church clerk at Plains Baptist. The new mission would have his "complete dedication," he said. Like other local families, the Carter clan is divided over what to do. So far the other Carters are sticking with the family church, and President Carter, who has officially transferred to a Washington church, is expected to attend Plains Baptist when he is in town...
...Point stands for "Graves Registration." These soldiers are the garbage men of combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand...
...Realty Co.'s sale of 1-in. square lots, at $11 each, of what was once Carter farm land. The Williams family, longtime business and social rivals of the Carters, are mainstays of the cheap souvenir trade. So is Hugh Carter, the President's first cousin and deacon in the Baptist church. Hugh now keeps his store open on Sundays, although he once said he never would. Billy Carter has started a company called Plains Civic Projects that sells souvenirs from the train depot. ("It's not exactly a nonprofit outfit," Billy says, "but the money...
...around his 380-acre campus in a canvas-topped Oldsmobile 98, he waves to students and invites visits to his office. There, a small plaque on his desk proclaims LOVE YOUR ENEMIES; BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU. Says Jones: "I'm a front-row, 'amen' Baptist deacon...