Word: keepin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keepin' Aware...
...Greasy. De Shields belts 'T Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do in an up tempo that may be delightfully surprising to fans of Billie Holiday's torchy rendition, and revels in marijuana in The Viper's Drag. Woodard, too little used, nonetheless glows in Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, while McQueen is at her best in Squeeze Me and the bawdy Find Out What They Like. Carter demonstrates why her name is alone above the title in a bravura sweep from the campy love play of Honeysuckle Rose to the patter of the wartime Cash for Your...
...aides complain that reporters cover his style, not his message. But he is remarkably successful in phrasing a message that others understand -- "keepin' the grass down where the goats can get at it," in the famous advice George Wallace gave him. ("We can't have no goats jumpin' in the air after grass," Jackson says.) Certainly his rivals have grasped his message, especially Richard Gephardt, who dramatized his anticorporate populism in a series of ads that led Michael Dukakis to say "That's Jesse's line." Jackson, picking up on that in a Des Moines debate, said he could...
Rutger smiled. "Sure they are. M16s--the finest noisemaker the U.S. makes. Don't worry, though, son--they're just for keepin' away the snakes and leeches in the jungle. Those Nicaraguans wouldn't dare touch private American citizens...