Word: porches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furthermore, the South is the home of the Great Oral Literary Tradition--another myth from days gone by many would like to believe in, a myth from the days when people told tales on the front porch while the cicadas sang and the Spanish moss languished dolefully on the eucalyptus trees...
That fall he tackled his mountain. With Barney and another close aide, Dennis Leblanc, he began driving up from Los Angeles on weekends, carrying sandwiches in a brown bag, working all day and returning that night. They tore off the shabby side porch with its metal roof and framed in a large L-shaped veranda, the room they use the most now. The mountain air was cold that winter, and the fog sometimes so thick they could barely see out the windows. The old roof was pulled away and replaced by red-brown fiber glass tile. One day the wind...
...metabolism has changed. At one time, the presidential campaign was a comparatively brief quadrennial eruption. An impressively haughty 19th century protocol dictated that the office must seek the man. William McKinley, for example, a candidate of piercing eye and vacuous mind, rocked away the 1896 campaign on his front porch in Canton, Ohio, while Mark Hanna freighted in the citizenry to gaze upon...
...capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched from the porch of a nearby house, hit the Somoza limousine broadside, tearing away the roof. The dictator, along with his companions, was killed instantly...
...with teeth-marks on the cover--contains 12 cuts: five, such as the aptly titled "Get Stuffed," are straight, cut-and-slash rock and roll. Most of the rest are gentle, inoffensive love-melodies that would bring smiles to grandma as she makes Minuteman Lemonade for granddad on the porch, and tears from heart-struck pre-pubescents. These are girl songs--from "Walkout," which concerns the obvious, to "By Yourself" (Well, you'll never let her go/'cause you kiss and love her so/A man ought to know/Or he'll soon be by himself), to the anti-drug "Last Chance...