Word: oles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What insane lawyer would take such a devil of a case? The sisters find him in an Ole Miss grad (Peter MacNicol) who was smitten with Babe when she once served him pound cake at a church bazaar. Besides, he relishes "personal vendettas...
...expect notices first that everyone seems to know everyone else. Dress is plain and runs for both men and women to tractor-fixing clothes, nondesigner jeans and faded flannel shirts hanging out from under jean jackets. There isn't a sequined vest or pair of DayGlo satin Grand Ole Opry overalls in sight...
...town that time forgot and that decades cannot improve," Lake Wobegon was founded only seven years ago by Garrison Keillor, a Minnesota writer and disc jockey. When he was a boy, Keillor, 39, loved the Grand Ole Opry. Now he frets that the Opry has become too much like a big industry and he believes that, despite TV, there is still an audience for a radio variety show, which is what the Opry and dozens of other shows of the '30s and '40s used to be. The producers of Minnesota Public Radio agreed. A Prairie Home Companion...
...screen date, Natalie Wood, said he was "terribly conventional ... He didn't drink. He didn't swear. He didn't even smoke! It was like haying the date that I never ever had in high school." But for diversion, "the Guys," Elvis' entourage of good ole boys, would procure women. The requirements: under 18, under 5 ft. 3 in. and under the Elvis spell. Some starlets cooperated by forming threesomes, wrestling in their under pants while the excited King, sated on cheeseburgers, watched from...
...catch herself from losing the artist's connection with the past, Angelou begins her latest work with a slave spiritual--a calling to an emotional memory--that sings, "The ole ark's a-moverin', a-moverin', a-moverin', the ole ark's a-moverin' along." The ole ark is Black people, now moving to realize the goals of the Civil Rights Movement and Malcolm X. The heroine is again Maya Angelou, no longer a little girl but now a single mother trying to raise her only son. The book tries to illustrate how closely allied the political lives of Angelou...