Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happens when the butt of your satire co-opts your plot line? The Republican Convention could have been dreamed up by Oral Roberts -- or Bob. Folksy singers abounded in Houston, supporting party ideology with hymns to red blood, white bread and blue-tinted hair. There was country star Lee Greenwood, who has been married five times, appearing as the warm-up act for Barbara Bush on Family Values Night. If he had burst into Times Are Changin' Back, the cognoscenti's sniggers would have been drowned by cheers of the faithful...
...tight schedule would discourage stars from taking part. The producers need not have worried. Tom Selleck, M.C. Hammer and the entire cast of Roseanne signed up. So did Ben Vereen, who sang a spirited version of Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now and later joined country singer Lee Greenwood and Susan Anton for a heartfelt rendition of America the Beautiful. Said Vereen: "I want us as a country to realize our responsibility to the troops. I don't want Saddam Hussein to see us as divided...
...donating their programs. Both the Super Bowl and last week's Grammy Awards were beamed in live. Taped segments of Los Angeles Laker games, boxing and wrestling matches, and favorites like The Arsenio Hall Show have also been shown. Disney even paid for a musical special, headlined by singer Greenwood, whose patriotic anthem God Bless the USA is one of the songs most requested by the troops...
...cuts, according to some estimates, will trim $1.1 billion from Britain's $38.6 billion defense budget. There is no dearth of ideas on how best to spend the windfall: suggestions range from funding Britain's flagging social services to protecting the environment. But, warns David Greenwood, director of the Center for Defense Studies at the University of Aberdeen, "it's not a political gold mine for the Health Minister or the Transport Minister to put his hand in now." Inflation and modernization programs could gobble up most of the money before a single pound gets spent...
Hornsby explores different pop styles succesfully, but the sources are not hard to discern. "Stranded on Easy Street" takes its boppy synthesizer chords straight from Lee Greenwood, and "Carry the Water" uses the high-pitched guitar pick that has become popular lately (particularly in Little Feat's recent "One Clear Moment...