Word: hoedown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between talks on arms control and arrangements for a Bush-Gorbachev summit, Baker wants Shevardnadze to experience a different America at a Saturday cookout and Western hoedown. The informal atmosphere, he hopes, will enhance their rapport. The scenario is vintage Baker: relaxed on the surface, complex beneath...
Event is an understatement. A carnival. A three-ring circus. A hoedown. A wild chicken farm. A dead fish emporium. A place not to take the kids. We ain't talking "Bambi Meets Mr. Rogers," folks...
Nine times the Princeton power play trotted out for a hoedown...
...what it really wants, what it really needs--a Dolphin-Bear title game--would be akin to depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...
When the Academy of Country Music staged its annual awards hoedown last week, the winning crooners were wearing their best show-biz smiles. But the more common expression on Nashville's Music Row these days is a long face. Only five years ago, country's popularity was growing dramatically, thanks in part to the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. But when the fickle mainstream audience abruptly lost its fascination with the Texas two-step, sales turned sour. While total record-company sales have grown 13% since 1980, to $4.3 billion last year, country-music revenues have dropped 6%, to $430 million...