Word: porch
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...shotgun for protection. On Sunday night, Jackie parked his car outside a pool hall just up a small incline from the trailer and put a quarter on the table to reserve a game. He then went down to see his ex-wife. Kay says she shot Jackie on the porch after he "busted in the door." His body was found several yards from there, at the edge of a small garden. Though there was no question who killed Jackie, Kay was not actually indicted until two years later. "It looked like a righteous shoot," explains assistant prosecutor Riffe...
Guthrie is as much performer as pure musician: he talks as much as he sings. His shows have all the character of an evening on his porch, and most of his songs are interrupted in the middle by spoken anecdotes, speculations, or quandaries. Sometimes he stops playing just to talk out an idea. Guthrie's colloquial idiom and sense of aphoristic wisdom are, perhaps, of the Prairie Home Companion school, but his repertoire is not without the socially conscious ire of a draft-dodger. Guthrie is a drawling American peacenik with teeth...
...leak of an embarrassing tape recording and the threat of a boycott to get Texaco to live up to the fine-sounding promises in its glossy equal-opportunity brochures? Why was it so hard for black Texaco employees to be taken seriously when they complained about being called "porch monkeys" and "orangutans" by co-workers and being passed over for promotions? In short, why are so many whites ready to declare that the war against racism has been won when fresh evidence that it is alive and well pops up all the time? Even as Texaco was scrambling to repair...
...early 1995, Will set about capturing the right-wing activists in Iowa and New Hampshire, all of whom were naturally suspicious of the pragmatic Kansan. Will believed the race would be about back-porch issues--not tax cuts or foreign policy but the everyday hopes and fears that Americans had for themselves and their children. If Dole could address those issues, he would not only outflank Gramm; he might even outflank Clinton...
...cries when Lori slips outside to sit on the porch steps and have a cigarette and a glass of Tang. She won't smoke in front of him, but this is what counts as her down time, and it's a soft, cool, edge-of-autumn night full of wishing stars. The 1986 Ford Country Squire station wagon, gray-green with faux wood paneling, sits in the driveway. She bought it when she was pregnant. Some people build bookcases or drop $250 on a souped-up stroller. But this is the way a car girl nests. "I don't care...