Word: nixed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master, but by involving himself with an emerging talent, Freddy King. King's career has the momentum to go a long way; Russell's influence on their first project, Freddy King Getting Ready (Shelter), is a healthy combination of supervision and modesty. Co-produced by Russell and Don Nix, the album offers an excellent selection of material and powerful interplay between King's biting lead guitar and vocals, Russell's distinctive piano, and Duck Dunn's bass. Freddy King's licks have been compared to those of the other two Kings, B.B. and Albert (no relation...
...next day they tell me to chip the paint off, and then I paint it again." Insists an armored division lieutenant: "There's just so much you can do to fix a tank." Scorning the Army as "the Green Machine," the Seventh's soldiers adopted a "mox nix" attitude, from the Yankee pronunciation of the German macht nichts (it doesn't matter...
...Once again we see an example of Nix-onomics: let the poor, the blacks, the students and the workers carry the burden for the rich...
Despite such successes, the key to Nix on's program remains the enthusiasm with which most Americans abide it?especially the working men and women who are expected to toil under its restrictions. The President's freeze on wages, in effect, is a sacrifice demanded of each of them. After an initial burst of optimism over the President's speech, laboring Americans?including millions who do not belong to unions?were be ginning to realize that his plan placed limits on their livelihood such as have not been dreamed of for a generation...
...right to counsel has been guaranteed by the Supreme Court, said Philadelphia Judge Robert N.C. Nix Jr. "But it's the judges' responsibility to make sure it is effective counsel." That may mean assigning a black lawyer to defend a black suspect so that the attorney "speaks the defendant's language...