Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market in this small Southern California town. Due--understandably if you've seen How to Beat the High Cost of Living--to a slow economy, business is bad in both lots, which face off across a strip of pavement that serves as a demilitarized zone. Soon these good ol'boys are playing at war, and their tactics become increasingly destructive...
...curl under and caress a ballad, or slide, like a gravity knife, to a quick sharp point that draws blood from a backbeat. She writes, or co-writes, most of her material, making sure to stash away in the lyrics plenty of shingles and cobwebs, like the recollection of "ol' Dottie" in her Beer Drinkin' Song...
later Is the hip size on ol'Dottie's jeans...
...system Nixon used for assigning speeches to his staff of writers. There was a "Good Nixon" speechwriter who was known for flowery prose and concilliatory pronouncements calculated to please the left; and a "Bad Nixon" speechwriter who would formulate hard-hitting, no-holds-barred vitrioles for the good ol' boys on the right. Although produced with the "editorial assistance" of "Good Nixon" writer Ray Price, The Real War shows Nixon restrained only by his still-fervent desire for acceptance and respectability, fangs barely capped. Ultimately, the book most closely resembles a 327-page Richard Nixon speech. Despite the obvious nostalgia...
...Sinatra: Trilogy (Reprise). Well, yes, he is weatherbeaten, and there is some rust in the pipes. Little relevance, less matter. Frank Sinatra gargling would still make most other pop singers sound like ventriloquists or, in some cases, their dummies. Trilogy is a rather unwieldy three-record set in which Ol' Blue Eyes explores the past, the present and the future. Each of the three sections carries a cumbersome subtitle (one is called Reflections on the Future in Three Tenses), but Sinatra checks this kind of weight at the door. There are some fine passes at old favorites (My Shining...