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...themes are mostly the Nashville perennials of hootch, heartbreak and hallelujah. But his best songs-chronicles of a tough, sensitive drifter-have a gritty conviction that comes from being unsparingly autobiographical. As Willie says, they are "songs that had to come out." The deep lines around Willie's surprisingly gentle brown eyes bear witness to a lot of hard days and even harder nights, and he sings about them with sentiment but no sentimentality, with pain but no self-pity. He celebrates their brief, boisterous pleasures, as in I Gotta Get Drunk...
...frosty morning in early 1974, a novice skier named James Sunday, 20, was working his way through a slow snowplow turn near the intersection of Drifter and Interstate trails on Vermont's Stratton Mountain. One of his ski tips hooked on a bit of snow-covered underbrush, and Sunday fell. He broke his neck and was permanently paralyzed from the shoulders down. He brought suit, and last year a Burlington, Vt., jury found the Stratton Mountain Corp. fully liable for the accident. It awarded Sunday $1.5 million in damages...
...days of her life. Indeed, wish being father to the deed, she is convinced that she is well liked and is entirely oblivious to the fact that none of her acquaintances can stand her. Except, that is, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), her roommate and disciple-a drifter for whom any home is better than none. Eventually, after an accident that almost kills Pinky Rose, they exchange roles. For a while it seems that Altman may be making an American Persona-not as subtle as Bergman's great film, but hipper and with more direct social comment...
...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...
Judging from a sample of its dialogue, Passing Strangers, the original musical opening at Adams House this weekend, can find humor in the most serious situations. When Todd, a drifter, meets Lynette, a woman looking for more than another one night stand, she tells him that she's "really going out on a limb with you." Isn't that a little condescending? Todd asks. "It's a lot condescending. I am a lot condescending. But I promise to keep my mouth shut in bed." Lynette says. "I wouldn't want that," Todd answers "Well," she retorts, "at least...