Word: driveways
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Veteran country crooner Strait is like that old reliable pickup truck parked on your gravel driveway, the one that starts every time you turn the ignition key, without fail, no matter how cold a morning it is. His new album is straight Strait, traditional my-heart's-been-broke country, without frills or filler. The lyrics revel in comfortably familiar country contradiction: "I ain't missin' you/ That's a lie, and that's the truth," he sings on one track. This is a short CD--in typically spare Strait fashion, there are just 10 songs--but that...
Sure enough, Hugh Hefner agreed. After driving up the driveway of the estate and giving my name to a talking rock that I didn't particularly think screamed sexy, I approached a construction sign that read PLAYMATES AT PLAY. I was entering the world's most expensive frat house...
...second cup of coffee, a big muffin, a soft chair, and I'm ready for a full, unexpurgated dose of Ken Starr. Our earlier TV encounters had been so cryptic, so unsatisfying: Starr on his driveway comparing himself to Joe Friday and bidding reporters vaya con Dios. But now, into the hallowed chamber where the articles of Nixon's impeachment were debated, comes Clinton's nemesis--in the flesh and under oath...
...life. "We celebrated our 50th anniversary here this year," she says. "But, you know, when the hog fumes come rolling in, you can't plan on anything. I haven't had people in for dinner [for two years] because I'd probably have to meet them out on the driveway with a mask for them to get to the house...
...sitting in the kitchen of Bruce Springsteen's New Jersey home when you hear a muffled roar outside. The Boss is back. He has pulled up in his driveway astride his Triumph motorcycle, and now he's walking in the front door. His face is ruddy from the wind and the sun, and he's smiling broadly. His new boxed set, Tracks (Columbia), featuring 66 songs, 56 of them previously unreleased, is due in stores this Tuesday, and Springsteen is eager to talk about it. The songs on the four-CD set span his career; a great many of them...