Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SWING OUT SISTER: KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD (Polygram). Sophisticated jazz-pop with a British twist. Corinne Drewery's silky vocals and Andrew Connell's buoyant keyboards create expansive, richly atmospheric arrangements...
...these people face or evade the dour cliches of dead-end domesticity? By expressing their feelings through the poetry of pop songs. Like Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, which also knew how potent cheap music is, Davies' film is laced with dozens of postwar tunes to counterpoint or underline the narrative. In the pub where everyone stops by "just to wet the baby's head," Eileen's pal Micky (Debi Jones) sings an effervescent Buttons and Bows, and Eileen pours her own seething frustration into a passionate rendition of I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces...
Such serendipity is not hard to come by once you venture beyond the expressways. Two miles south of the Badlands is a bleak crossroads called Interior (pop. 70), the site of LaVonne Green's seven-table WoodenKnife Drive- Inn. A South Dakota guidebook last year said Europeans recommend the place ) to their friends, especially for the Indian tacos, but Green, whose daughter is married to a Sioux, professes puzzlement at the transatlantic accolade. She is also mysterious about her secret fry-bread recipe, which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years...
...true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING HIS OWN HAND...
...white citizens of Keysville, Ga. (pop. 430, 70% black), did not seem to care that the local government had been dormant since the 1933 election, leaving the hamlet with no police or fire protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked...