Word: huey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bernard's friend Huey, on the other hand, was a suave, muscular brute. He was apolitical, insensitive, and preoccupied with sex. "If I had any respect for girls, I'd never make out," he once told Bernard. And he always got what he wanted by abusing urbane women tired of "meaningful relationships...
...dashing, handsome leader who reputedly made it with famous gorgeous women. Bernard tried, too, but he continued to have personal problems, tortured by women who would draw out his most intimate personal secrets and then break up with him. Many of them ditched him for one-night flings with Huey...
...decade progressed and the war divided the country, Bernard kept up with the times. His frustration turned to anger. He became hostile toward the opposite sex--sometimes openly. Huey balded, got married, and sold air conditioners...
...Style. "A lot of the music I play is music the Mardi Gras Indians do. The guys that did this thing-Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim-died off. There was nobody to keep it alive except the few guys who worked with them. Me, James Booker, Huey Piano Smith, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint. I guess I would call my own style barrelhouse with blues and jazz mixtures. Rock 'n' roll...
...seemed far too radical to some members. Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Huey Long. To soothe conservative qualms, Roosevelt demanded that his planners draft a scheme that was not "the same old dole." That ruled out any use of general revenues, meaning primarily income taxes, to finance any part of Social