Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the country singers Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue, all sisters. At a stop in the town of Wenona, Bush told the crowd that the three sisters had been giving a country concert in the bus, and "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing in twill trousers and a cowboy shirt. Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter out of Butcher's Hollow, Ky., told the crowd she loves George Bush...
...realize that most people consider you a Democrat. I think I once heard someone describe you as--heaven forbid--a liberal. Let's face it though, Derek, I have judged your record, seen what you've done at Harvard, and you are my kind of man. Whether you know it or not, you're a conservative. (Remember I didn't know I was a conservative in 1980. I didn't realize it until Ronny's boys told...
...Chicago's westside ghetto, delighted to have found an affordable apartment in Melrose Park. In their excitement to escape the squalor and fear of the ghetto, the Sleds gave little thought to what it might mean to be the first black family in their neighborhood. "This was like heaven," recalls Donald, a 44-year-old handyman who sometimes stutters when excited. "It was so quiet and peaceful." But the Sleds have found anything but peace in Melrose Park. Instead, their new home has been under siege. Vandals have taunted them with racial slurs. They have shattered their windows, punctured their...
KEVIN WHITE--"Mayor DeLuxe" and "Kevin from Heaven" were both nicknames for the mayor of Boston from 1967 to 1983--the man credited for transforming the city into what Bostonians like to refer to as "a world-class city." Elected as a liberal reformer in the midst of the city's busing crisis, White's controversial personality came to dominate the Boston politics during his years in office. As the 1983 mayoral election was beginning to heat up, speculation ran rampant over White's decision to seek reelection. White spent $30,000 for a political commercial in which he would...
...followed at the mike by other champs-for-a-day: an accountant, a short-order cook named Larry, a computer specialist who beams while a wag introduces him as "the greatest lead voice from Florida." He bows and launches into Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Fellowship and fun count for more than tonal quality in barbershopping, a thriving movement that celebrates a unique song style: the four-part unaccompanied harmony that flourished at the turn of the century on porches, street corners, saloons and, yes, barbershops across America. In its early years, barbershop singing was pretty much a male...