Word: oles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Same Ole Story...
This year it's the same ole story. Princeton wins its first three races and starts talking about beating Harvard. Well, Harvard hasn't lost to Princeton since 1957, and if the sentiment around Newell Boat House is any indication, there isn't about to be a change in that trend...
Only a few years ago, most city folk thought that good ole country music was something only a born hillbilly could love. Now flat-picked guitars and twangy banjos have begun to compete with even the loudest howls of amplified rock; soulful laments about careless love are heard as often as hip pop. Last year's cornball is this year's lollipop−and to underline changing tastes, a new monthly magazine, Country Music, is Johnny-Cashing...
...began to pelt parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went out for the entire state of Mississippi, but the rains mercifully let up, the warnings were canceled and riverbank residents returned to their normal activities-which include watching the river. As one Mississippian said, "Dat Ole Man sure ain't behavin' good-he's cutting...
KAEL IS ALL for the underdog. At times she seems to hunger for that ole simple straight talkin' soul, that sensibility set aside for off hours and cherished on visits to rural small towns--the one she hopes movies won't estrange us from more than urban living already has. I think that this nostalgia sometimes gets in her way, confused her sense signals. When she calls the gangling, gifted loser Pookie Adams (of A Sterile Cuckoo) "a resonant American archetype," I get the feeling that she has gone overboard on her identification. Or perhaps it is just that hitting...