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Jagger worked the hardest of all to play off the American traditions and create something new. Listen to the first Stones single, a standard Berry track called "Come On," and you can pick up the taunting combination of Cockney chop and Southern drawl--both self-consciously nurtured--which the singer has toyed with since then...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Rockin' The U.S.A. | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Warren Gates, 53, earthy character actor whose laconic manner and menacing Kentucky drawl landed him numerous roles as a moody, alienated cowboy or gangster; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Besides appearing in the TV series Have Gun, Will Travel, Gates was in 40 films, including The Wild Bunch (1969) and the recently released The Border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 19, 1982 | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...Watch out for flak ahead," snaps the copilot of the B-17 in a voice that sounds like John Wayne's. Then the plane's bombardier gives an order in a slow Southern drawl. Snips from a grainy World War II movie? Not at all. This is part of B-17 Bomber, a home video game that Mattel will start selling this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Talk from Computers | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...daily afternoon was sporting intellectual dilemmas ranging from international politics to the reproductive habits of gypsy moths, Carroll M. Williams, Busey Professor of Biology, is a Harvard institution. Munching on a supply of hot peppers while sitting in his office, he displays in a distinctive Southern drawl his extensive repertoire of collected facts and stories spanning his 45 years at the University. He recaptures, as if they occurred yesterday, the lives of former students and colleagues, his own research, and most importantly his affection for the current undergraduates for whom his "admiration is boundless...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: A Giant Among Bugs | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

...somehow keep you warm through the night. Beth's father was a lawyer from Hazlehurst, Miss, (the scene of Crimes), her mother an amateur actress from down the road in Brookhaven (where Firecracker is set). "I was real shy when I was little," Henley says in a molasses drawl just slightly diluted by her years in Los Angeles. "I was sick with asthma. Spent a lot of time getting shots and laying in bed. At night, Mama'd come into my room and ask me why I was crying. I'd tell her I was pretending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Go with What I'm Feeling | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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