Word: oles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly your standard duet on last week's Country Music Awards show. There was Willie Nelson, the crusty country and western singer, sharing the stage-and microphone-with Julio Iglesias, the Latin crooner who does not serenade his multinational audiences in a good ole boy's drawl. The unusual pairing came about after Nelson heard about Iglesias during a visit to London. The two got together to record the oldie As Time Goes By for Nelson's next album, and for Iglesias' next LP they did To All the Girls I've Loved Before, which...
...ideological balance, to select a potential running mate. "It's a no-win situation," comments one D.N.C. official. "If the nominee chooses a woman, he'll be accused of caving in to the activists. If he doesn't, he'll still just be a good ole...
...Gimme that ole rainbow spirit.' 'Mel King para alcalde.' --Chants of King Supporters
...candidate, who said he is trying to smile more, appeared downright jubilant at the parade, where he was followed by about 30 supporters, who alternately chanted. "Gimme that ole rainbow spirit"--a reference to the King campaign's description of its voting coalition--and "Mel King para alcalde [for mayor...
...years ago this month, as the gruff but masterly chairman of the Senate's special committee to investigate Watergate charges and Richard Nixon, Sam Ervin, 86, described himself as "just an ole country lawyer." Since he retired to part-time private practice in Morganton, N.C., in 1974, the bushy-browed raconteur has also been a busy author. Humor of a Country Lawyer, his just-published anecdotal collection, covers everything from Ervin's circuit-riding attorney days to Watergate to the Social Security computer that paid him a lump-sum death benefit by mistake. He is troubled by arthritis...