Word: goin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaction is: "Feeding them what? Strychnine?" Nicholson's voice, with the silky menace of an FM disc jockey in the eighth circle of hell, has always suggested that nothing in the catalogue of experience is outrageous enough to change his inflection. Even when he goes shambly and manic (Goin' South, The Shining), Nicholson's voice and those tilde eyebrows give the impression that he knows more than his character, more than anyone need know. So it comes as a surprise that here he is playing a grubby hero, Eastwood-tough and Redford-bright. He is good...
...says Elizabeth, "neither is wrong. But they need somethin' to bring them together. I really don't know where fightin' gets anybody. It's only goin' to bring more dead, more sadness to the families...
...worth of good dancin'. Cheerleaders shook their pompoms, Aggies stomped around the locker room, Edna's girls sashayed up and down the big staircase, and the Governor did what politicians do best-tap dance. That show opened in 1978 and they tell me it's still goin' strong...
...know, they kept it secret from us children," she whispers, as if the taboo were still enforced. "My daddy was in the war for 16 years. He was just a young boy but he was still goin' at it in the mountains." Henry D. Hatfield, 53, says of his great uncle Henry D., a physician and politician: "He would actually, physically, throw you out of that hospital if you'd ask him about that feud." Peacemaking was an active mission among both families. "My parents," Belle says, "made us be friendly with the McCoys...
Baby Love sneers. He stands up. "I'm goin' get all I wants," he says, "and I don' care if I gotta steal to get it. I'm not afraid of doin' time so long as I kin do it fast." Then he goes up to the clubhouse with Daddy Rich. He lies on a mattress puffing on an El Productocigar hollowed out and filled with chiba chiba. There is a bottle of 150-proof Bacardi rum by his side. The cassette player throbs and, for a moment, Baby Love is warm and secure...