Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Billy sits perfectly still for a minute, then pulls out a wallet-size photo from his pocket and stares at it. It is a picture of his two-year-old son Matthew, dressed in a red plaid outfit and sitting in front of a Christmas tree, cheeks rolled back in an explosive smile. The child is with Billy's former girlfriend back in Ukiah. "Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen? I'm going back to him just as soon as I can get it together...
Susan's story of October 25 rocked Union. She explained to police that she was on her way to visit a friend at about 9:00 when she stopped at a red light and encountered her attacker. A black man in his twenties, wearing a plaid jacket and jeans and waving a gun, out of breath as though he had been running, jumped into the passenger seat: "Shut up and drive or I'll kill you!" Ten miles out of town he ordered her out of the car, a 1990 burgundy Mazda Protege. She told police that she begged...
...that now. Both warriors, clad in plaid pants with mustard yellow polo shirts and tweed hats, hurling cybernetic golf balls at each other and wielding bioengineered pitching wedges...
After that celebrated turn of phrase, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin--who has been seen, of late, pumping the flesh of men of less repute--refused to share a podium with Leibovitz. All this from an octogenarian clad in plaid, with tooth-white hair and a black yarmulke...
Like a lot of Young's other recordings, Sleeps with Angels combines reverie and disillusion in equal measure. A feisty, scruffy throwaway like Piece of Crap, an assault on environmental hypocrisy, shows that Young passed along more than a taste for worn plaid shirts to those upstarts in Seattle. (The current generation of rock musicians considers Young something of a godfather.) The tune has a snarling, implacable drive and guitar work that can make your back fillings vibrate...