Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guard, so why not do it under parental supervision? Another friend recommended a single-shot weapon, but Bill Kinkel bought his son a semiautomatic rifle. Later, he surprised Kip with a Glock pistol. Just down the road from the Kinkel home--nestled along a rural road that feels more Ozark than Pacific Northwest--a sign warns NO HUNTING OR SHOOTING...
Everybody knows that country is the last lair of sophisticated songwriting: character sketches, Ozark melodramas and, for the female singers, three-minute nervous breakdowns. Berg, 34, works expertly in all these genres and, like a backwoods Bruegel, portrays solitary figures going down in flames in teeming small-town landscapes. She peoples her sorority with the hopeful (Along for the Ride), the horny (Back in the Saddle--just try not to sing along) and a fine assortment of wistful waitresses. They commandeer the later songs on the album (Good Ol' Girl, If I Were an Angel, The Resurrection), toying with desperation...
Maloney's close encounter occurred the year before the bombing. In the spring of 1994 he ran an ad offering to sell a piece of property in the Ozark mountains of Missouri. "In the middle of nowhere," it read, "at the end of a rough road, at the bottom of a hollow...there may be a cave." When Maloney got a phone inquiry soon after, he asked if the caller's name was spelled "M-C-V-E-Y." "That's close enough," came the answer. In the fall of the same year, three men drove up to Maloney...
...rockabilly years. Five years later, she was starring in Always, and transcending the kitsch format (a fan recalling her brushes with Patsy's greatness) by interpreting 18 Cline songs faithfully and imaginatively; she'd slow down the tempo, tease out the vowel sounds even further, add an Ozark twang that you won't hear on Patsy's records. Now an ancient 20, Barnett has her own, self-titled CD (Asylum). It stands as both a votive offering to her idol and a discreet declaration of independence...
...which the National Weather Service is currently installing nationwide. Already NEXRAD has helped extend the lead time for tornado warnings from three to eight minutes, on average. Sometimes the warning comes even earlier. Last month weather forecasters in Little Rock, Arkansas, called a tornado warning for communities in the Ozark Mountains a full 35 minutes before the twister showed up, giving people who lived in trailer homes time to scurry to friends' basements for safety...