Word: gotta
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Take your average family from Los Angeles: Dad's gotta have a car to get to work. Mom's gotta have a car to run all those errands. Juedye (Judy) has to have one to get to the health food store. Mack needs a pickup truck so he can haul around babes in the back of it (you really shouldn't show your face at a beach down there unless you got a pick up to haul around babes in). And little Flowertruth has to have one for her 16th birthday. And each family has a couple of spares...
...kind of country sound Joe Ely has set down on five fine albums -the newest, Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, was released in February-bears little resemblance to the chart-topping fodder of Kenny Rogers or the cuddlesome crooning of Eddie Rabbitt. Anyone who considers that those old boys sing country music is guaranteed to be mixed up and maybe a little unsettled by Joe Ely. Country slickers like Eddie and Kenny have helped divert the mainstream of Nashville about 1,600 miles west, right into the middle of Las Vegas, where a soft pedal steel guitar...
...Louis, World Heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, was perhaps the greatest boxer in history. He defended his title a record 25 times. Of 71 professional fights he lost only three, recording 54 knockouts. Yet he once observed: "If you dance, you gotta pay the piper. Believe me, I danced and I paid, and I left him a big fat tip." His dance was a flat-footed shuffle and a blur of powerful arms, and payment was eventual poverty and emotional problems. In the ring, the Brown Bomber was an impassive menace who revealed neither hatred nor benevolence. But from...
...encouragement of an individual to engage in illegal activity in which he would otherwise not be disposed to engage." Key to this defense are tapes showing undercover agents coaching Williams to "come on strong" when he meets the ersatz Arab, telling him, "It's all bull. You gotta play and blow your horn...
Reporters and TV correspondents on the scene had but one thing on their minds: to get to a telephone. Dean Reynolds of U.P.I. bolted to the front desk of the Washington Hilton, blurting to a clerk, "I gotta use your phone." Getting through to an editor, he shouted, "The President's been shot at!" "Let's go," replied the editor as two rewrite men joined the line, taking a sentence or two of dictation in turns before typing it into the computer. At 2:31 p.m., U.P.I, went on the air with its report, just a minute after...