Word: haye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Altman and Tewkesbury to C. & W. was both its audience ("These are the people who elect the President," a political advance man comments early in the film, with just a trace of disdain) and its tradition. Country-and-western basically dresses up folk music in rhinestones and spangles, making hay out of Americana. A lot of it is slick and sweet, and its sanctimony can curdle the blood. Altman used the music like a continuing, slap-happy dirge...
...England's great gin debauch in the early Industrial Revolution when modern methods of gin distilling were introduced and made it the preferred spirit of the working classes. For a couple of pence you got not only enough gin to knock you out till morning but a pallet of hay and a place to sleep on the barroom floor. It is said by reputable social historians that at any one time one third of the adult population of England was drunk. At the Agassiz, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night at 8 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...fellow lowan. "They are trying to put Hoover on a pedestal. He's not on my pedestal," she says. Hoover is still blamed for failing to help the farm economy. The Wood-sides held on-even through 1934 when the weather brutalized the prairies. Ross got no hay, no corn, sold his few cattle to the Government. There was almost nothing-but there was a new President...
...noticed an outhouse by the side of the road. It was unlocked. I didn't have the courage to walk into the farmhouse close by--I wasn't up to another "No. 'I just went into the outhouse in a kind of daze and lay down on some pressed hay I found there. I had nothing to cover myself with, and the clothes I was wearing could not keep me warm. I hadn't eaten all day and had no food whatsoever with me. On nights like that one's thoughts stand still. I was glad of it because otherwise...
Brower's family will hold a memorial service for him at 3 p.m. on April 1, at their house at I Hay Road in Belmont. The University will hold a separate memorial service at a time to be announced later...