Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyway. Many Republicans who need moderates to win are not using the scandal explicitly in their campaigns; some even consider it a third rail. "It would backfire if we used it," says Cynthia Bergman, spokeswoman for Oregon House hopeful Molly Bordonaro. "Voters would view it as negative campaigning." In Mississippi's racially divided Fourth District, Republican Delbert Hosemann first withheld judgment of Clinton, then switched course, calling for resignation and demanding his opponent say "whose team he's on." Now, slipping in the polls, Hosemann has backed off again. "I don't want to be elected because of what Bill...
...plays herself. Things turn hyper with "There Goes the Neighborhood" (first line: "Let's party, let's get down"), but slow down with the gently acoustical "Riverwide", two examples of the wide rhythm and tempo variations that Crow infuses into the album. Crow's idol, Bob Dylan, originally recorded "Mississippi" but was displeased with the result. He gave the song to Crow to record in her own way, and she gave it a distinctly country sound and fast tempo, something that could never be found on Sheryl Crow...
Marie Larkin carries off the role with an admirable intensity, if not a consistent accent. There are too many marbles rolling around in her mouth to achieve the flat twang of a Tennessean, and instead she sounds a bit too close to a Mississippi sophisticate than the product of Appalachian inbreeding. Precisely because she isn't "dumbed-down" enough for the part, she achieves an entirely different element from the character: cold calculation. Her words are placed with precision, whether it is to tear down "the nigger" or the doctor...
...know they are out there--will undoubtedly jump to defend the woman who has won 32 Emmys and an Oscar nomination and who has distinguished herself as an advocate for victims of rape and child abuse. She has shown Americans, they would say, that a poor, black girl from Mississippi--words that Winfrey regularly uses on her show to describe herself--can succeed beyond her wildest dreams. Those fans certainly have a point. It's hard not to admire a woman who has obviously overcome much...
...heard on the radio this morning that it hit in Pascagoula," said Katherine F. Stewart '02. Stewart lives in central Mississippi, but her grandparents and aunts and uncles live in Pascagoula, which is near the coast...