Word: hillbillyism
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Her reasons for doing so are painfully clear: he had become a drunk and a philanderer with a "need to live in turbulence." But the author's account of this period is totally without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of...
Parton's picture hangs prominently on the station wall, and her spirit is constantly invoked, as if she were the patron saint of such enterprises. Though the songs do not always have the authentic hillbilly twang, the spirit is right, as cheery, relaxed and amiable as the first really...
"Before Elvis there was nothing," John Lennon stated in one of his last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In...
At home in Memphis the blue-suede revolutionary was a pussycat with a distinctly warped psyche. His father Vernon Presley was convicted in 1938 of altering a check and sent to prison. The three-year-old Elvis was fiercely coddled by "the Hillbilly Cassandra," his mother Gladys. Until he was...
Holmes Tuttle. The most difficult relationship among the Reagan aides to analyze is that between Holmes Tuttle, 75, and the candidate. He is the kind of self-made millionaire whom Reagan admires, a former Oklahoma hillbilly who moved to California and made it big selling autos, in banking and in...