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...same time, consistency. And a restlessness under the conventional constraints of country music. On Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman (Reprise), her considerable gifts are in full flourish. She can sing a Bill Monroe classic with reverence and put over Steve Earle's nail-spitting Guitar Town with untroubled conviction. She is astute and audacious enough to follow up Stephen Foster's Hard Times with Bruce Springsteen's spooky and mournful Mansion on the Hill. Just goes to show. When Emmylou Harris gets to work on a tune, country music knows no bounds...
Mitchell should nail down Player of the Year. First in rebounding and field-goal percentage and third in scoring a year ago, there is no reason those stats should not get better...
More About My Favorite Magazine: In just 56 pages, those clever Peninsula writers managed to compare homosexuality to slaveholding (pp. 4-5), drunk driving (p. 13), nail-biting (pp. 22-24, 48-53!), having blue eyes (p. 38) and alcoholism (p. 40). There are also oblique comparisons between the gay movement and Naziism (p. 13), between homosexuality and murder...
Josephine Roberson positions a chalk line along the top of a sheet of plywood as Nolan Derouen flicks the taut string and imprints a fuzzy red stripe across the board. They slice the wood to size, carry it into Betty Hines' living room and nail it to the ceiling. Hines works at the back of the room, straining from the rungs of a ladder as she attaches tiles to the plywood with the aid of one of Derouen's assistants. Heavy rains, excessive groundwater and years of neglect in southern Louisiana's sugarcane region have led to creeping decay...
Priscilla Loston, 35, the group's feisty treasurer, is one of the nail pullers. She recently received a new home, a former country barroom that was transplanted to Four Corners to replace her tumbledown shack. She did much of the makeover, dividing the interior into separate rooms and installing paneling and electrical boxes. "This is Four Corners Self Help, not sit on your butt and get help," says Loston, as she yanks out a stubborn nail...