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...want you to care a great deal about what happens to us on November 7." Bellotti, who is wearing a light easter-egg blue suit smiles cheesily and steps off the stage. Everyone pats him on the back, and he is surrounded by friends who call him Frank, "ole buddy...
...mothers braid daughters' lustrous black hair in time for school, sisters hang out the laundry on poles, grannies mold patties of coal dust and mud, fuel for the evening meal. Aunties hurry home with the rice ration in open bowls. Fathers split wood, small children chop vegetables. Good ole boys play Chinese chess or pai-fen, a complicated poker...
...bound to happen. Dolly Parton, the cantilevered queen of country music, was stuffed as usual into skintight duds at the twelfth annual Country Music Association Awards at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Just before the announcement came that Dolly had won the Entertainer...
...vote that so buoyed Ole Boy Jordan was perhaps the most impressive -and unexpected-in Carter's string of recent victories in the once recalcitrant 95th Congress. The House, by a margin of 223 to 190, fell a surprising 53 votes short of overriding Carter's veto of a $10 billion public works bill that would have funded 59 highly varied water projects scattered throughout the legislators' home districts. In a three-day publicity blitz, the President had labeled the bill "wasteful," "inflationary" and an example of "pork barrel" politics...
...whatever politcal uniqueness it once had. The speeches bored, the issues were non-existent, and the candidates came across as conservative facsimiles of one another. All stood slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan. All were good family men, churchgoers, Rotarian-types who seemed to have gone straight from Ole Miss to Ole Miss Law School, on to the D.A.'s office, private practice and finally politics...