Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laughing All the Way was held together by a breezy cynicism that Howar dispensed like hair spray. Making Ends Meet is similarly bound. "I may be a cynic but I'm no whore," proclaims Lilly Shawcross of South Carolina, the novel's Howarish heroine. Like the author, Lilly is a woman of abrasive wit who will not go gently into that prescribed afternoon known as middle age. Divorced, 40, and the mother of two, she is also the sassy film critic for a Washington, B.C., TV station...
BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir was grinding out acid rock, and David Allen Coe was in prison. Nobody, least of all Jerry Jeff, would have guessed that he was starting a musical movement of sorts, still less that all those people would be drawn into...
...some of the latecomers, he still gets a lot, especially back home, and if the attention isn't adequate to his desires, the money probably is. He looks like a comfortable member of the bourgeoisie, outwardly indistinguishable from your average real-estate salesman except for his cowboy hat. The hair is cut regularly, the face is rounder and clean-shaven, and the middle is spreading a little. Success has been pretty good for Jerry Jeff...
...thought I had a fixed set-up," he says, "they never give you enough information on these things." "This would be the one time I didn't wear a tie," he says, smoothing back the thin black strands of hair on his balding head and buttoning his top shirt button. The guests begin waltzing into dinner and Rick follows cautiously, pausing at the dining room door. Finally he approaches Gilbert at the table. He gets a couple of shots of her there but must return after dinner for more. This shatters the smooth schedule he envisioned of processing the film...
...more years!!) I don't even have to tell you who's going to be holding forth at this Saturday's "Rock Festival." You know. Country Joe is going to be there. All right, so there aren't any fish any more, and Country Joe doesn't have any hair any more, and maybe no teeth either, but so what? Plus ca change and all that. Country Joe will be joined on the big stage by a whole bunch of people who would have been at Woodstock probably if they had made the right plane connections or something. You know...