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...There's the sugary, quickie cool you get from eating a Popsicle under a hot noontime sun. It's tasty and sharp, but it lasts only a few licks. Then there's the other kind of cool, the kind you get from resting in the shadow of a big oak tree on a summer day. That kind reaches down to your bones, and it even touches your soul: that old oak tree is noble and enduring...
Johnny Cash is oak-tree cool. The 62-year-old singer and songwriter has sold more than 50 million albums in 40 years. His signature songs -- I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire -- are classics. Despite his achievements, though, the past few years have been hard for Cash, and he has needed all his cool to persevere. His albums have sold poorly, and with the rise of young, easy- listening stars like Billy Ray Cyrus, record companies have lost interest in people like Cash. But now Cash has a label that's committed to him, and he has made...
...Balt. 4, Oak...
...lacks the drama of electrocuting someone. One of the region's biggest tourist draws is Old Sparky, the original death chair, which sits behind glass at the Texas Prison Museum four blocks from the Big House. Visitors from around the world come to gawk and marvel at the gleaming oak contraption where 361 killers met their fate from...
...McGahern's Collected Stories, released in paperback in March, speak to the difference between an abstract greatness and what we like. When Tipperary, a character in the story "Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass," asks the narrator if he thinks Shakespeare was all that he was bumped up to be, the narrator answers that people say so, and it is people who do all the bumping up or bumping down. "Who is people?" asks Tipperary. "People is people," says the narrator,"...they might even be ourselves...