Word: hardrock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allred, 43, has not limited her "sexploitation" cases to women. When Actor LeVar Burton wanted custody of an illegitimate child that he admitted siring, Allred got him joint custody. She has also countersued the producers of the movie Hardrock for $1 million on behalf of another actor, Neal Sheldon, who walked off the film because he was asked to appear in the nude...
...roll," Tosches writes. "But had it not been for those who came before him, there would have been no rock 'n' roll." Indeed, most of the 26 pioneers chronicled in these pages were forgotten by the time Little Richard came leaping onstage. Wynonie Harris, Amos Milburn, Hardrock Gunter (who, at 33, joined the Army in 1951, "perhaps fearing a Chinese takeover of his beloved Alabama"). Jackie Brenston, Stick McGhee. These are what have been called roots artists, and they sang the kind of mean and raggedy rhythm and blues that still sounds rightly raw and impolite today...
...there. They dug in." Most observers assume that only death or federal marshals will force the older Navajos to leave. "It is my land since I was set here on the earth," insists Katenay Benally, 72, standing forlornly beside a Navajo chapter house in the desolate community of Hardrock. "I lie awake, and smoke a cigarette, and think of my grandchildren. How will they live in the future...