Word: homespun
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...educate people [about the blues] will be one of our main focuses--and to reveal in the process our homespun roots," said Colston P. Burgher, one of the operating managers...
...first hearing, the slickness of the sides from his Hollywood sound tracks contrasts joltingly with the joyous homespun soul of the Sun sessions and the easy virtuosity of the early RCA material. No matter. It soon comes clear that it was all the same: music. Elvis music. American music. He was rewriting the rules and changing the definitions. On this collection, It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) is followed by the good-times raunch of Blueberry Hill, and Elvis is right at home in both. He was, and remains, the high priest of the holy honky-tonk...
...legend. I'm just a myth." Which sounds disarming -- except that some parts of the myth appear to be self-created. Even some admirers concede that Perot is an inveterate embroiderer of good stories. A less sympathetic way of putting it is that for a supposedly down-to-earth, homespun character, Perot is extremely conscious of his image and prone to inflate it. Separating the facts from the exaggerations and inventions is no easy task. But it needs to be done so that the many Americans who look to Perot as a savior from incompetent, self- serving politics can judge...
...notes that the take-charge Texan still works without handlers, travels without aides and returns his own phone calls. But with his funds unlimited and his polls still zooming, Perot can afford to be eccentric. "As the pressures grow, it will be interesting to see how long the homespun style can endure," says Woodbury. "I'll know it's a new ball game if a media adviser starts returning my calls instead of the man himself...
...ringside seats for the next bout . . . no more trouble. The Tyson camp may have tried that tactic again, offering Washington $750,000 to withdraw her complaint. That wouldn't happen here -- not in Indianapolis, not with this accuser and not with Gregory Garrison, a smart barrister with a homespun air, whom the local D.A. had hired as special prosecutor...