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...joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled by the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, starring a mechanical bull and John Travolta. The crowd that had infested discos was suddenly squeezing into tight-fitting jeans and into pseudo-kicker saloons from Cambridge to Beverly Hills. Five years later, the boots were tucked away next to the platform shoes, and the New York Times was declaring that country music might soon be "as dated as the ukulele...
...here's the kicker... false danger! We'll preserve that omnipresent fear of being discovered: A security guard will still patrol the premises and wander onto every floor. But no one will get caught. The guard will make plenty of noise, giving the customers time to scurry away before she catches them in flagrante delicto...
...could argue that, regardless of their efficiency checking books, the door guards are necessary to restrict entry to Harvard affiliates with proper identification. Theoretically, that's true. But here's the kicker. I entered each of the aforementioned libraries by flashing my Ohio driver's license...
Yale took the opening kickoff to its own 30-yard line--knocking Harvard kicker Scott Johnson for a loop in the process--and promptly marched 53 yards to the Crimson 16 on nine running plays out of the wishbone and a 3rd-and-8 pass from quarterback Darin Kehler to Jim Gouveia out of the I formation...
...king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon, and he comes up with his own cash-register kicker: Brian Jones was murdered...