Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIKED RHINESTONE SUITS, and he bought four Cadillacs almost before he bought himself a house. He thought frequent bathing unhealthy, but forced himself to take a bath every Saturday night--as the saying goes--whether he needed it or not. But when Hank Williams died at the age of 27 in the back seat of one of his Cadillacs that December night in 1954, heading down a desolate stretch of U.S. Route 60 for one more gig, the whole nation mourned this strange Alabaman whose country standards like "Jambalaya," "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "Lonesome Me" have entered the pop pantheon...
Actually, Hank Williams Jr. has been a country singer since his teens, but it was only with the breakthrough Hank Williams Jr. and Friends album of two years ago that his playing was marked with anything but blandness. Then came a rock-climbing trip to Montana, and an accident that left him in the hospital for six months, a desperate interlude during which his mother died. But with last fall's One Night Stands and now The New South Hank Jr. is back, capturing what it is to be Hank Williams' son and what it's like...
Sports Quiz--True or False: Both George Allen (head coach of the Washington Redskins and L.A. Rams) and Hank Stram (New Orleans Saints and K.C. Chiefs) once actively sought the position of head football coach at Harvard College...
...which he also plays a cop (although this time a much less confident one), is running ahead of The Enforcer at the box office. For both men, these successes are predictable in vehicles that fulfill the expectations of their audiences, mostly people who, as Reynolds' pal Comedy Writer Hank Bradford says, "have to take two steps up [into their pickup trucks] to drive home...
Harvard Medical School researchers announce they have discovered that President Bok is immortal. Bok promptly signs an iron-clad, 90-year contract with the Harvard Corporation. Informed of the moaning noises emanating from University Hall, Bok sneers, "Let Hank put this in his pipe and smoke...