Word: dylan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan rather than traditional Southern heroes. He is more self-disciplined than many a Southerner, aloof to the point of loneliness...
Carter's favorite poet is Dylan Thomas, and he has read most of his works. He liked Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, an account of Kennedy's presidency. He thought Plain Speaking, the profile of Harry Truman by Merle Miller, was especially instructive. His favorite "trade book" is The Presidential Character, an analysis by Duke University's James David Barber of the traits that make for strong and weak chief executives...
...deer rifle. A tire went fwooo, and Bell clunked along on three wheels. Christ, he's serious, thought Bell, and the rear windshield sprayed glass over him. I wish I was on some Australian mountain range ran through his mind and Bell, who liked Hank Williams but liked Dylan more, bailed out the passenger side, into the lawn bordering the driveway. Just then his uncle, sighting down the Redfield 3x9 that made the truck look like he could sneeze on it, hit the gas tank. The pick-up just rumbled for a second, and there was a dripping sound...
...that kept Hubert Humphrey out of the 1976 race--too many liberals out there had been rolling in the aisles for years over Thompson's description of Hubie as "writhing like three iguanas in a feeding frenzy" over the prospect of nomination. But Thompson was a sucker for Bob Dylan. Carter courted and Carter quoted--remember the acceptance speech: "I believe in the words of Bob Dylan, that our country can be busy being born, not busy dying." And Thompson joined the ranks of the born-again...
...about Los Angeles that is funny, enlightening, musical, at moments terrifying and above all funny?" Zevon's high-spirited blend of country rock, bluegrass and churchy harmonies is marred by the fact that he has a raw, gritty voice and cannot sing very well. But neither can Bob Dylan or Randy Newman. Those who come to hear Zevon perform are not purists. They are beguiled by his lyrics, which typically are about Chicano hustlers, Sunset Strip women and hotel-bar bums. A quatrain from his ballad Desperados Under the Eaves: "And if California slides into the ocean/ Like...