Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What passes for country music these days is so diffuse that it just about defies definition. These albums have little in common except that they were made by men with short haircuts, a sob in their throats, a taste for old-style ballads, and a refreshing lack of city-style sophistication...
Dangers. The shadow cast by Wallace involves not popular ballots but electoral votes. Wallace predicts that he will be on the ballot in all states except, perhaps, Ohio, and his aides claim that he has qualified in some three dozen already (although in Massachusetts election officials have been rejecting up to 70% of the signatures on Wallace nominating petitions as inaccurate or false). It is certain that citizens represented by a large majority of the electoral vote will get a chance to cast Wallace ballots. How many is difficult to forecast. Third-party candidates often look more powerful...
...solidarity with North Viet Nam" rally, while just a block away at Monseigneur Restaurant (steak: $15), harassed waiters try to evoke the old days by wrapping label-less bottles of beer in napkins. Transportation is largely by bus. Gasoline rationing has virtually emptied the streets of cars, except those rusting at curbside, idle and unusable...
...often jokes end up poking too hard or at a subject too sensitive, only to sour into boredom or embarrassment. And everyone who ever blew a joke realizes the demands comedy makes for exactly the right gesture, the right voice, the right mood and the right timing. But except for a few TW3-type series of shorts aimed at tired topics like HHH as LBJ's puppet or the unappetizing selection of candidates for the fall, which should be edited out of the show, The Proposition is consistently laughworthy...
...Peace Corps is still the largest single employer of college graduates except for the military. Over 2.3 per cent of 1968's 666,000 graduating college seniors (15,600) applied for Peace Corps service...