Word: pickins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pickens' pickin's have made him the most prominent of the new corporate raiders, who are active across the U.S. not only in the oil industry but in fields as diverse as entertainment, paper and food. Partly as a result of their burgeoning takeover attempts, mergers are occurring as never before. Some 45, each worth more than $1 billion, have taken place since 1981, compared with only a dozen in the twelve previous years combined...
...worked with a lot of geologists," remembers Lawton Clark, an independent Denver oilman who joined Pickens in that venture, "but I've never seen anyone as well prepared. He just knew what there was to be known." Pickens describes those hardscrabble early days as a period of "pickin' with the chicken...
...pickin' up bad vibrations./ Watt's givin' me palpitations./ Gee whillikers, what a sensation." Such adulterated lyrics, until last week, would have meant little to Interior Secretary James Watt, 43, which, of course, was the problem. Watt, it seems, is a dim bulb when it comes to rock music. Otherwise why would he have tried to ban the wholesome harmonies of the Beach Boys from the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario...
Once upon a time there was probably no cotton-pickin' way to get Sammy Davis Jr., 56, onto the set of a television show like the yahoo repertory Hee Haw. But that was before the onetime freedom marcher ("I was there in Selma") was paid a backstage call by Roy Clark, 49, during a stint in Las Vegas. Next thing he knew Sammy was onstage in Nashville, with Minnie Pearl, 69. Says Davis: "I really felt welcome. We're all family." He even brought along his own wardrobe: six huge diamond rings, two diamond-and-gold bracelets...
P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass (Vanguard). Composer Peter Schickele's latest burlesque features Blaues Gras, a hilarious collision between a stately 18th century cantata and some mean pickin' and strummin'. It just shows what Spike Jones could have done if he had gone to Juilliard...