Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean a writing band, sir. We could get all the kids together and then our writing would really rock. You and Mr. Do-rite could write lead...
...Rockin' roll writing, sir," Johnny said again, climbing onto a desk and singing into an unsheathed Bic ball point: "You should of heard them modernist poets writin' rock/ Everybody let's rock/ Viva Cambridge, people...
Admittedly, the flurry of nicknames, second names and stage names can get a bit confusing, especially since Van Zandt is the kind of rock star people just enjoy shouting out to. Walking around Times Square ("my office"), near his home base in Manhattan, he cuts a striking figure in fringed leather, high boots and a trademark bandanna wrapped around his head, an urban swashbuckler whose frigate just got towed away for double parking. "Hey, Miami!" yell a | couple of citizens cruising by in a Chevy convertible. He waves and shouts back as the car runs a light at Broadway. "Miami...
...this point, after the good advice of his sexologist has either been forgotten or ignored, Gary is caught between a rock and a hard place. Simultaneously he must try to convince the voters that a) He had a beautiful woman in his home, but did not sleep with her, and b) He is not a homosexual...
Then in 1867 somebody discovered a diamond near the Orange River. "Gentlemen," said the British Colonial Secretary as he inspected one of the earliest of these discoveries, "this is the rock on which the future success of South Africa will be built." Indeed, a quarter of a billion carats were to be dug out in the next century. Since the diamonds lay in Afrikaner lands, the British simply declared that they were annexing those lands, and British miners came pouring in. Two decades later rich deposits of gold were discovered in the Transvaal. Still more Britons and other foreigners came...