Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asking her how things were going and telling her not to worry about the Whitewater bank loan. Yet Proctor himself was evidently still trying to get the financial statement from the Clintons. Susan Sisk, the senior lender at Twin City at the time, recalls chatting with Wes Strange, 1st Ozark's new president, who mentioned that Clinton had recently made a speech in the Flippin area. "I told Bill," Strange reported to Sisk, "we still need the financial statement...
LOVELESS. RIGHT THERE IN THE name is some significant country poetry--the kind that, around 3 a.m. at the lonesome end of an Ozark bar, acquires the artless profundity of a cry for help. Patty Loveless started life as Patty Ramey, married drummer Terry Lovelace and later modified the surname. It turned out Loveless perfectly fit her musical taste. Her songs catalog every sin a man can commit, every pain a woman can bear. If you turn on the radio and hear a strong heart breaking, chances are it's the one in that plangent Loveless voice...
...know the story of how the Clampett clan, after discovering oil in the middle of their Ozark swamp, signs a billion dollar deal and moves to Beverly Hills. Jed Clampett, played by Jim Varney of dubious "Ernest Goes to Camp" fame, decides his daughter, Elly May (Erika Eleniak), who spends her spare time wrestling bears, needs some refinement. So he takes her, Cousin Jethro, and Grannie to Beverly Hills to find a wife who will be a mother to Elly May. Oh, the daring...
...Klux Klan) and the daughter of a lawyer, Linda says, "you were sent to your room if you didn't have an opinion." She says she and Hillary are much alike, as they pursue their careers and work together on a foundation Linda established to send Ozark women to college. Linda talks to Hillary almost daily, but sometimes the friend she has grown to love in private does not resemble the person the public sees. "Hillary has a raucous sense of humor but has to be more reserved than me. Would you risk being humorous in a foxhole?" she asks...
...entering college that year. Clinton says he was not worried because the University of Arkansas took any student with decent grades; he had long assumed he would be going there, where Fulbright had been the college president before going to Washington. Clinton had become familiar with Fayetteville, the Ozark campus town, during his summers at band camps, and he wrote his junior paper on the university. He had acquired a circle of friends in that corner of the state -- and even another surrogate father, Eli Leflar, who had been on a Masonic panel that gave Clinton one of his many...