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...Only one Sun star - that big swig of Louisiana moonshine named Jerry Lee Lewis - stayed there when he became hot, and that is because, quite soon, he was not. (Marrying your 13-year-old cousin-once-removed will do that.) But it's Lewis who embodied - hell, embodies - so much of what was feral and profound about the new music. He knew its varied roots and how to tap them. As he announced at the conclusion of his belated, heroically defiant debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 1973: "Let me tell ya somethin' about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies...
...sensitive internal matters--such as the radical indoctrination of schoolchildren by the Wahhabists--the U.S. has not pressured the royal family directly. "There has been no table pounding," admits a senior U.S. official. "When the Saudis get hectored about reform, they get their backs up and say, To hell with it--we're not going...
...walk outside after sundown. “Damn, it was hot today,” you think. “At least now it’s dark. At night, the summer air is cool and refreshing.” But no! It’s still hotter than hell. It’s so dark and yet so hot, and the air is so thick. Now, a lot of things are described as “womb-like,” but with the incredible heat coupled with disgusting humid wetness, walking around Washington at night is probably...
That prospect doesn't do much to raise the spirits of people like Frank Alexander, 71, a full-time aide at the Iowa Workforce Development Center in Des Moines. "Hell, I thought I'd be living in Costa Rica by now," he grumbles. "I'm broke. But as long as I keep working, I can pay for my medicine and taxes on my home." Alexander has worked since he was 16, finishing his main career on the factory floor at Sara Lee, where he was forced into early retirement at 55 by health problems. He's reasonably cheerful but laments...
Meher-un-nissa is home again, but the 10-year-old can't forget the morning last March when home became hell. Hundreds of armed men raced into her narrow lane, broke down doors, dragged out screaming residents, attacked them with swords and sticks and set their houses on fire. Meher-un-nissa's father, urging his family to escape, was the last to flee. When the child looked back, she saw a sword slice off two fingers from the hand her father was holding up to protect himself. Then someone stabbed at her with a sword too, tearing open...