Word: oles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...match-up that has all the makings of a barroom brawl. On the right of the room, Charlie Daniels, roof-raising country rocker, the good ole fiddler who a couple of seasons ago sang about the devil going down to Georgia and about solid American spunk: "This lady may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell/ And if the Russians don't believe it, they can all go straight to hell...
...narrative. On Cummings' 13-minute appearance with Barbara Walters on the Today show: "I counted, because, with two other black writers, I'd been on her show for nine minutes." On the jailing of a black writer who is a drug addict: "Mailer almost did in his ole lady and got nothing but a slap on the wrist, and here Ike is, doin' it to himself. " On black college students at the affirmative-action gate: "I see them a few years down the line, having smacked the wall, backing away, murmuring, 'I be goin...
...story on Steven Jobs is a rebuke to the "good ole boys" who categorize all youth with long hair and cut-offs as "dang hippies" who are no good to society...
Some musicals-the good ones, that is-knock audiences off their feet with brassy numbers. Others touch their hearts with sentimental ballads. Pump Boys and Dinettes is different: it tickles the funny bone and makes everybody feel, just for the evening, like a good ole boy or a good ole girl. Country music, in other words, has come to Broadway...
...Heart, is pleased that "Beth writes people rather than plots. She's writing what she knows. She imbibed the Southern gothic sensibility with her mother's milk." Evelyn Purcell, who will direct The Moon Watcher, is a kindred spirit; her documentary film Rush, about student bodies at Ole Miss, is a cartographer's view of Henleyland. Says Purcell: "It's because she writes for herself that her plays come out so true. What we're seeing is her vision, pure and simple...