Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Mitch Thompson, who carried a huge effigy of Ford in an Exxon football uniform, said he objected primarily to Ford as an individual politician. "He's just plain dumb and the way he's treated the American people has been despicable," Thompson said...
...government, not the city, that would bring on tragedy, plague, exorcism, humiliation, impoverishment and evasion. The government's non-intervention may threaten to open the floodgates to all sorts of abnormal and complex things, but there is "nothing abstract" about the city's problems. The crisis is accessible to plain people; the government's callousness...
...exactly what prompted the current tour, but Dylan seems to be trying to heal old wounds, to bring together all the disparate people he has influenced and been influenced by. There's Ramblin' Jack Elliott, just a relic of his Woody Guthrie days--rumor has it his voice was plain then. He had to change registers in Providence on Tuesday to handle the chorus of "Friends of the Devil." Bobby Neuwirth harbored bitterness towards Dylan at one time because he felt that he could have been a superstar if he had gone commercial the way Dylan...
...sitting pretty, at least for the moment. The squad faces the same mediocre team that took Princeton by surprise last Saturday, and we all know that two upsets in a row is a tough order for any average ball club. Harvard is the team to catch right now, plain and simple...
...characters who orbit around his highfalutin heroine regularly upstage her. In the book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter is as poignant as her mother is flashy, and her grim fate at the novel's end seems out of keeping with all the earlier slapstick. Yet McMurtry's skill and compassion all but hide his incongruities...