Word: hick
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...liked the idea of going to a famous snob college in the East, and Harvard liked the idea of getting a country hick from Oregon,” he writes in an e-mail...
...again, that may not sound so fictional. But the film’s fantasy world never draws the audience in because Chester never commits to the fantasy’s efficacy. Every public display of homosexual affection is accompanied by a barrage of beer bottles from a New Jersey hick or a self-conscious sermon about New York’s gay-bashing epidemic...
...surprise of many educators, the youngsters tend to score handsomely when they move on to high school. "Once there was a stigma attached to going to a one-room school, like you were a hick or something," says Ralph Kroon, field director of the Montana Rural Education Center at Western Montana College. "Now it's a back-to-basics phenomenon." Nowhere is the phenomenon more vital than in Nebraska, which has 300 public one-room schools, more than any other state, and where parents have collected 85,000 signatures for a 1986 referendum on stopping further consolidation...
...Troy's debut album, Loco Motive, was just released on the Muzik Mafia's Warner Bros. imprint, Raybaw (red and yellow, black and white) Records. Says Troy: "I'm rapping over pedal-steel guitar, lap steel, Dobro, fiddle and other country instruments. In the Muzik Mafia we call it hick-hop, and we think its time has come. Country is ready to expand its boundaries." There are signs he may be right. Nelly and Tim McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album...
...banjo as Troy's deep, rat-a-tat-tat delivery flies by. But it does grow on you and soon finds a stomping middle ground between the Sugarhill Gang and Charlie Daniels. In the online-opinion maelstrom, about 50% of people seem to enjoy their first exposure to hick-hop; the rest can safely be described as horrified. "Can't spell rap without crap" and "NOT COUNTRY ... A SICK DISGRACE" are common threads, with even moderate dissenters saying that while they may like country and rap separately, they would prefer they stay that way. Some call on CMT to stop...