Word: redneck
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TOBY KEITH WHITE TRASH WITH MONEY Like most other country males, Keith invented a persona--the take-no-crap redneck instigator --and he's sticking to it. That doesn't mean he can't tweak it. His most accomplished record balances exuberantly stupid singles (Get Drunk and Be Somebody) with sensitive love songs (A Little Too Late). Under the guidance of co-producer Lari White, Keith's voice is surprisingly delicate, particularly on Ain't No Right Way, a nuanced defense of "black and white" thinking that also serves as a career summary...
...course, the Incident, the genre's wrath hovered like a jealous boyfriend. "Their old audience feels a little betrayed, a little left behind maybe," says CMT's Philips. That may explain why, as the Chicks and country began their breakup, country fans ran into the arms of brilliant redneck instigator Toby Keith, who displayed a doctored photo of Maines and Saddam Hussein at his concerts...
...roommate in the dorm was a redneck. He wouldn't talk with me. The only things he would say were two sentences: 'What's up?' And when he went outside, 'See you, man.' He never wanted to speak with me, and when he did speak with me, if I said, 'I don't understand; can you speak more slowly?' he would say, 'Oh, how can I say it?' And then he would stop talking...
...John M. Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif's gaffe, both Swann...
...under the Howard government, the innovator started to work the system. As supportive elders held off the "radical and ratbag elements," Estens turned the AES into a crusade. Perhaps a non-indigenous person is the only one who can prevail in places that have competing Aboriginal tribes and a redneck underbelly. "I advised Dick not to go into it," says friend and legal counsel Roger Butler about the personal financial liabilities Estens has had to endure ever since. "It's fortunate that this mission was undertaken when his farms could stand on their own feet...