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...forgettable number called 1969 just to get out of town. She was 16, and her first hit had just opened: Beetlejuice, in which she plays a crape-draped kid obsessed with death. It was just a movie, but some of her classmates in Petaluma, California, taunted her mercilessly. "These hick school kids," she recalls, "they thought I was a witch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Take a Bow, Winona | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...felt a little of an outsider, a hick, getting on the plane in Des Moines, Iowa, and arriving in Boston where all the bookstores are," she said. "I come from a town where there's no cafe latte...

Author: By M. ALLISON Arwady, | Title: Authors Read for Homeless | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

After several challenges, Perry broke into "Walk This Way," and emcee Joshua B. Lieb '94 said: "Mr. Braddox you can take that fiddle back to the bayou now. Congratulations, Joe Perry, on beating that hick...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Lampy Honors Guitarist Joe Perry | 4/20/1994 | See Source »

Many people seem to have a visceralreaction against bluegrass: it's hick music theythink, or cowboy music at the very least. Theyseem to feel that banjos, fiddles, and mandolinsshould have been relegated to the trash can ofhistory...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Of Tango, Bluegrass, and surf Music... | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...Hicks was fired from his post last April by Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry. Berry cited Hick's lengthy disciplinary history, spotty attendance record and poor work performance as prompting the termination...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Hicks Complaint Dismissed | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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