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...rework it, rediscover it, find the secret pulse under the familiarity. Suddenly a song that's been on tape delay somewhere in the back of the memory bank comes into the consciousness at full volume. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry hasn't sounded so desolate since Hank Williams. The Cowboy Junkies work their wiles on it, and the song is reborn...
...Connecticut couple has discovered another way besides the lottery to convert numbers into dollars. Hank and Marie Oscar knew that there was something unusual about 800-243-2546, the toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...
...point code of ethics, and a committee is available to punish those who might spice their lyrics with a double entendre or even a Swedish joke. The panel hasn't had to meet in years. "People like to ridicule us as a bunch of squares," declares Sarasota, Fla., anesthesiologist Hank Vomacka with a wink. "But they keep coming back to listen...
...contrast, Dukakis, despite his own aloofness, has at least a chance to come across to suburbanites, in California as in Illinois, as one of them. Says Political Consultant Hank Morris: "California is almost all suburbs, so there is a great opportunity for Dukakis to emphasize that he is the first presidential nominee to grow up in the suburbs and to stay there, commuting to work and mowing the lawn and knowing the concerns of suburbanites...
...that's not for Travis. He speaks with reverence of the greats -- Patsy Cline and Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and Jim Reeves -- but he has to be pressed to single out a contemporary. Even then, the answer doesn't come easily, and those he mentions -- like George Strait and Reba McEntire -- are straight, no-chaser country types. Growing up in Marshville, N.C. (pop. 2,011, right on the South Carolina border below Charlotte), Travis, with five brothers and sisters, got an earful of teen tunes, from Kiss to Clapton...