Word: porkchop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson has spent the last decade travelling to the 14 prisons under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Corrections. Armed with his tape recorder and camera, Jackson grasped what life is like for prisoners like Chinaman, Ten-Four. Bacon and Porkchop, Lightnin' and Cowboy. They told him their story and sang him their songs and he was able to gain an unusual insight into the mechanisms of survival contained in the rhythmic melodies...
...living charts, the inflation index that means most to the consumer is the cost of food. President Nixon, deeply embarrassed by a spurt in the most basic price of all during a period of wage-price controls, mobilized his Phase II machine to fight the battle of the porkchop bill...
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