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...buddy of the Possum. Peanut also had achieved dubious fame as being the man at the wrong end of one of Jones' most notorious episodes: He narrowly missed being shot by a bullet from Jones' .38 revolver. The incident occurred in late 1978 when the singer, at his lowest ebb after his D-I-V-O-R-C-E from Wynette, got drunk and took a potshot at Peanut...
Kander and Ebb...
When Claire Michaels, a former actress and teacher, made the acquaintance of Main Street Legal Services, her life was at low ebb. "I was disabled and I was poor and I was very sick," she recalls. "There was a possibility that I might not survive the illness I had, and I wanted to have a will and a living will." Michaels, 71, had read in the paper that the City University of New York (CUNY) had an elder-law clinic. "They came here to my home to help me," she says, still amazed. "The professor was very concerned about...
...also harbored literary illusions of the mighty Thames a la Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad's words echoed in my head, "What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth!" In my mind I tacked widely against the great river's deep currents and slipped fleetly over the finish line in a victory over the former imperial power. My dream's finale had me starring in a miniature version of the Boston Tea Party...
...primaries, but six months before the general election--when Gore should have been telling people what he stood for--it made him look mean, negative and short of ideas. His campaign seemed wholly reactive, skirmishing and assailing while ceding Bush the terms of the debate. "Campaigns have their ebb and flow, and we were definitely ebbing," a Gore aide admits...