Word: houstons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Texas sure is an exciting place. I'd forgotten how wild and trigger-happy my home state was until I returned to Houston last week for a little rest and leisure. In the span of the three days after Thanksgiving, we Texans got caught up in a real-life Western featuring a daring prison escape, several shootouts and a manhunt reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde...
...morning of Friday, Nov. 27, seven death row inmates attempted to escape from Huntsville Prison, about 80 miles north of Houston. The enterprising fellas apparently used a hacksaw to cut a hole in a recreation yard fence, hid on the roof of a cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either...
Teachers and counselors report that kids who are taught to hunt responsibly are generally among the more mature and better-mannered--and saner--adolescents in the wilds of modern American culture. Cesario Guerrero, an agricultural-science teacher, leads kids from tough neighborhoods in inner-city Houston on hunting trips for deer and wild hogs and observes that these students often "become part of a different crowd" when they return. "It gives them a pride...
...Whitney Houston went into the studio planning to sweeten up a greatest-hits album with a few new songs; she ended up finishing a full new album. Arista chief Clive Davis says the project came together "literally in the last eight weeks...
...tries to update Houston's soul-lite formula. Wyclef Jean co-wrote the superb reggae-ish title song, and Lauryn Hill produced the fabulously funky remake of Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her. The problem is with the Old Guard: producer David Foster's work is dull, and Dianne Warren and Babyface, who both wrote tracks, have better work on their respective resumes. Still, you've got to give Houston credit for stretching herself on at least part of this disc; the first song, It's Not Right but It's Okay, is one of her best...