Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first sprawling demi-autobiographical outpourings were bound and ungagged between the covers of Postcards in 1987. The gist of the haywire parable is that fame and fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...
Black and Brooks, along with such kindred voices as Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Travis, are part of a kind of neoconservative musical move back to country basics. No outlaw image or firebrand tunes for these folks. They lay down melodies with a light country swing and a tinge of melancholy. They sing bedrock sentiments about home and hearth, loneliness and heartbreak and getting done in by the big time in the big city. "I consider myself % traditional," Black says. "And I'm new, so if I had to call myself something, it would be 'new traditionalist...
...foes of both proposals have introduced two ballot initiatives of their own. Food growers and agribusinesses are pushing a measure called CAREFUL, which they say would achieve the same level of food safety as Big Green through less drastic means. Dubbed Big Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative...
...Mandela is seeking two things: first, reassurance that economic sanctions will not be lifted until South Africa is headed toward a peaceful political solution, and second, pledges of funds to rebuild the A.N.C. in South Africa. The organization was legalized only four months ago after almost 30 years of outlaw status. Mandela's message in Washington, says Mabuza, will be, "Why turn off the heat when the water is about to boil...
Hate among Los Angeles gang members isn't personal; it's an attitude. Ask Ducc why he shot, and he says, "Cuz he was an enemy." Ask him why he was an enemy, and he shrugs and says, "Cuz." It's part of an outlaw code Ducc lives by but cannot define. Ducc says he never felt any remorse. "I wasn't going to cry about it, because he was an enemy and I wasn't going to feel sorry for him," he says. But didn't he feel anything? "For a while I got drunk, to hide my feelings...