Word: porch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the bass and drum strike up every one of Waylon Jennings's songs, there's a plodding anticapatory quality about it, a waiting without suspense. This is a familiar theme in country music, connected to country life--the mood is like sitting on the porch in summer whittling and watching the cars go by. It's hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel...
Clad only in surgical masks, two men dashed through a packed amphitheater where Harvard students were taking a first-year anatomy exam. Watching from his front porch, the president of Virginia's elegant Sweet Briar College gallantly applauded as 50 of his coeds sprinted by adorned only in their class years, lipsticked on in an approximate license-plate position. On busy U.S. Route 1, traffic was brought to a cheerful standstill by 533 University of Maryland students chain-dancing au naturel. With astonishing swiftness, streaking, the art of the point-to-point dash in the buff, has burgeoned into...
...place even had castellated edging around the rim of a flat roof and an obviously home-made, handy-andy porch pretending to be a gate-house; every man's home his castle. Note to monograph; Reminiscent of old Mr. Wemmick in Great Expectations with his miniature castle, moat, and drawbridge. Home-made: There were efforts to make house homes like the initialled screen doors on plain white houses the mill had built not far away...
...lady says: "Yessir my son he was sittin right on this porch right in that chair where you are and he'd been feeling right down, stayed out of work. Well suddenly he just started vomiting this black blood. He started vomiting and it was all black blood. They took him to the hospital and his heart, it stopped. They hooked him up to one of these machines, heart and lung, you know. He had all these tubes and wires coming out of him. After that they said he suffered from brain damage...
Things aren't simple; Fairntosh wasn't white and didn't have columns. It was a beautiful shade of yellow, and beside it was a bed of trained yellow roses, and above it were those tremendous oaks. It was actually built too early to have columns, and its porch stood out instead with sober Federalist dignity...