Word: jes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crusade to close down the Chicken Ranch. And you know, he did. So the girls lit out for towns a little more hospitable to the good life-Austin Galveston, Tijuana. But that wasn't the end of the best little whorehouse in Texas. No sir. It was jes' the beginnin...
...anyone who has read it knows, People is about people--mostly celebrities of the rank a half-step ahead of Jaye P. Morgan (sic.) and a step behind Burt Reynolds. But People is also about jes' folks, once-ordinary citizens, who, through either outrageous good or ill fortune, have come to claim their 15 minutes in the sun. People looks at its flock with an endearing innocence; it sees only good and bad, with little in between. The crucial point about People is that it sees its once-ordinary folks as good, and this is the quality the 'Poon captures...
With a week to go in the campaign, McGovern--who has always been forced to come from behind--appeared to have pulled even with Abdnor, his strategy having put the challenger on the defensive. So while the jes' folks Abdnor waged a last-minute dietary campaign--capping his race with a huge "bean feed" at the state university, and Jim Abdnor Pancake Day in Mitchell--the more senatorial McGovern aired a series of commercials and made private visits across the state, hoping he could pull off another miracle...
...FIRST DOG DAYS of this sultry new decade, two films of precious little artistic merit and perhaps less social value have burst on the scene to entice us into the cool, dark air of the neighborhood cinema. These are movies about jes' plain folk who might live around the corner or across the state, silly stories of ordinary people who want to be rich so that they can be happy, happy in the American...