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Clinton was born at the bottom of the state, in its black belt, which has a bleak history. Twenty-five miles to the west, the state's most famous demagogue (Jeff Davis, named for the Confederate leader) was born, in a county (Little River) where more than a hundred freed blacks were murdered after the Civil War. About 25 miles south, a cemetery from early in the century was dug up, revealing African-American bones ravaged by the worst malnutrition recorded in this country. Hope is placed on stingy soil that raises, paradoxically, only large things: thick piney woods...
...hangdog defiance of the outer world masked an uneasiness about the state's reputation. Journalists covering Clinton in Little Rock are constantly asked by a suspicious citizenry, "What have you heard about us up there?" % The state took a long time to recover after it sent its prized leader Jeff Davis to the U.S. Senate in 1907, only to have him laughed into fecklessness by a more sophisticated audience. The state has tried to send more presentable leaders to Washington ever since -- men like Fulbright, Dale Bumpers and David Pryor...
...third addition to The Crimson is Jeff MacNelly's "Shoe." MacNelly's a Pulitzer Prize winner, is really much more at home with political cartooning. Shoe, his daily strip about a community of journalists living in the trees (they're birds) was at its best when he started it a number of years ago, and now has settled into a "better than average state," One wonders if MacNelly does this syndicated strip more for the daily cash than anything else: as good as the strips is (it's usually worth at least a chuckle) his political work is much better...
Time Takes Time occupied a notable team of four top producers (Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Peter Asher and Phil Ramone), 14 songwriters (including Ringo) and such graybeard kibitzers as Brian Wilson (who provides a Morse-code background % vocal of dit dit dit-dits on the Diane Warren tune In a Heart Beat). Somehow it all coheres, perhaps because this musical militia wanted to honor the group that shaped their pop tastes, and to do it with the one Beatle who could take direction from them as he did from Lennon and McCartney...
...sophomore Jeff Gabriel pushed a looserebound around Roy's right leg at 8:09 into theextra period to give the 10th-seeded Engineers asurprise victory over the top-seeded Crimson...