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...shotgun blasts. Officials in Washington suspect the Mafia arranged the murder as a favor to Thevis: they believe he sold his porno operation to the Mob this fall. But Atlanta FBI agents disagree. In four previous attempts to kill Underbill, said an official, the suspected hit men were "redneck bank robbers from around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Killing for Smut | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Occasionally, Finch's old political finesse would shine. At a country barbeque, he would woo redneck throngs by talking about his childhood days working on the farm and toting water out to daddy in a fruit jar. But even Mississippi has gained some sophistication these days, and the old ploy just didn't work any longer...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ole Miss Campus Politics | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...offering customers such delicacies as "chicken lips with rice." Mr. Rogers, a takeoff on the dim-but-lovable kiddie show host, says: "Welcome to my neighborhood. Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave oven. O.K.? Pop goes the weasel!" Other bit players include Ernest Sincere, a redneck used-car dealer; Joey Stalin, a Russian stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt Buzzy, a gay director. Grandpa Funk, based on an old wino Williams once saw in San Francisco, always appears at the end of the show. Clicking his gums and speaking in a raspy high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Robin Williams Show | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...lyrics since both she and Jimmy know Nelson's hits by heart. The setting was the White House lawn, where Nelson, the king of outlaw country, put on a stompin' good show last week. The most eye-opening song of the evening: Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother. The President himself, a stock car racing buff and Nelson's No. 1 fan, had planned the party for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, some of whom rolled up to the "diplomatic entrance" in their Day-Glo colored "stockers." Alas, Jimmy couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...Austin sound-redneck rock or progressive country-began crossing over from country to pop charts and racking up sales once scarcely dreamed of in the country field. In the past two years, three such albums have gone platinum, in trade parlance (i.e., sold 1 million copies): an anthology of progressive stars titled The Outlaws, the duo album Waylon & Willie and Willie's own Red Headed Stranger. Willie's latest, Stardust, is currently one of the nation's hottest-selling country LPs, even though it consists entirely of Tin Pan Alley standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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