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White House dinners are pretty high off the hog for Willie, who not too long ago was being written off by the country music establishment as an "outlaw"-a renegade, a troublemaker who wrote interesting songs but would never fuse his raw performing talents. Then six years ago, Willie bucked the system by leaving Nashville for Austin, Texas, where he took charge of a movement that made outlaw a term of defiant pride. Along with such congenial spirits as Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker, he fashioned a spare, linear style with a heavy rock beat that...
...category they settled on was outlaw, and Willie and other road-hardened individualists like Waylon Jennings earned it in ways that went beyond unorthodox musicianship. They disdained the studded and rhinestoned outfits of Nashville stars for scruffy clothes. They ducked the record-company celebrity mills for a life of carousing and missed appointments. Willie also met and married a red-haired country singer named Shirley Collie. Though the marriage was to last ten years, it was nowhere near as harmonious as the records they occasionally cut together. Once when Willie came home drunk, Shirley, who knew a little kung...
...legislature did not outlaw abortion, as it could not go against the 1975 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade--a decision that many legal scholars have attacked as weak, and which may well be subject to reversal in the future. Rather, it simply stated that the state would not sanction, with public funds, a procedure it had judged to be immoral. Forced to accept abortion as legal, it refused to tolerate it as right, or to force the public to pay for it with their tax money...
...music Jimmy Carter has catholic tastes. Among his favorites: Mozart, Bob Dylan, and Willie Nelson, 45, carousing king of outlaw country. At the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., the shirt-sleeved President and his pantsuited wife Rosalynn helicoptered in from Camp David to join the ranks of 12,000 fans and hear Willie match vocal cords with Emmylou Harris, 31. When Willie finished Georgia on My Mind, Carter emerged from the sidelines, and the two good ole boys who made good wrapped each other...
...sought freedom in the fast lane. Springsteen sings over an echoing piano and in the chorus--"Summer's here and the time is right, for racing in the streets"--does a twist on the innocence of an earlier time in rock. But this sight of the traps awaiting the outlaw man of the road, who always thought he was free, seems to sound the bottom of Springsteen's cars and speed theme. Where else he can go, having once exposed it as a delusion...