Word: mavericks
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Presley was funky and unbridled, passionate and rebellious, respectful of the maverick traditions his music sprang from but proudly, defiantly new. His singing tapped and trapped that mysterious, wondrous thing at the heart of American popular music. Sam Phillips, who recorded all Elvis' early sides for his seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired...
Sure, initially, folks were upset with the Maverick management. But pretty soon, Jackson and his holdout were forgotten...
...Prozac in TV and radio debates with Dr. Peter Kramer, whose best seller Listening to Prozac describes the drug's powers in generally favorable terms. In the process, Breggin has infuriated Prozac's manufacturer, Eli Lilly, prompting the firm to deluge journalists with material intended to discredit the maverick psychiatrist...
...other ad, Barrett describes himself as "a maverick Democrat" in the tradition of Paul Tsongas, whose Democratic "human instincts" combine with "the fiscal responsibility of the other party." The "third way," as Barrett calls it, is a combination of liberal social policy and conservative economic policy. To the untrained ear, that might sound remarkably like the approach that led incumbent Republican William F. Weld '66 to victory in the last gubernatorial race...
...Maverick. Well, I liked it. I hear it's better if you know the TV show. I wouldn't know...