Word: oles
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There are a number of other interesting figures: arrogant professors with tenured status in this obscure academic grove, a family of backwoods sadists who rent their muscles to various malefactors, a parole officer (Susan Clark) whose sexiness doesn't quite fit her job category, a good-ole-boy campus cop (Cameron Mitchell) who is a lot shrewder than he acts. Together they almost manage to create a memorable, if not exactly original portrait of petty pretense and ambition in a small town...
...chances for a pennant that year. Today the two have, at best, a cool relationship. "I respect Finley for his business knowledge," says Jackson, "and I think he's made some needed innovations in baseball. But unless we have to talk business, I keep clear of the ole...
Seriously, the South isn't all cheerleaders, good ole boys and Baptist deacons, as you so richly imply. There is a new generation of Southern adults that well know how to discern a gator from a stump. You know, we've seen a good many gators down here. We just stay home when Nixon brings his carpetbags to town...
...Haggard well knows, a country singer must go forward, meeting and reflecting his public. Indeed, Haggard may still be belting it out in the 1990s, if the longevity of some of his older colleagues is any indication. Roy Acuff, dean of the Grand Ole Opry, is still going strong at 70. So are Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, at 62, and Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, at 55. "Country music fans are the most loyal there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would...
Last week the President carried his public relations drive both North and South. In Nashville, he helped open the $15 million home of the Grand Ole Opry. As 4,400 country music fans applauded, Nixon said that their kind of music "radiates the love of this nation?patriotism." He flubbed an attempt at spinning a Yo-Yo given him by Country Music Star Roy Acuff and played God Bless America and Happy Birthday on the piano to honor his wife Pat, just back from South America, on her 62nd birthday. In a relaxed evening, there was no talk...