Word: roland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse and the heart gets harder." Perhaps most conspicuously, he is a superb storyteller, running true to the tough, hard-eyed tradition that embraces both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...
...Roland's Thompson gun And bought...
...Midnight Cowboy and made one album called Wanted Dead or Alive that attracted scant attention. Eventually he met up with Crystal, and took off to Spain, where he sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon run by a soldier of fortune named David Lindell (coauthor of Roland). Lindell held Zevon's wages in escrow, in case of either dire need or sudden good fortune. Jackson Browne, who had got friendly with Zevon back in Hollywood, wrote him in care of the Dubliner Bar inviting him to return stateside and cut a record. Warren blew the escrow account...
...other consolation matches. Penn's Ed Roland decisioned Harvard's Jim Franklin at 167 lbs., and D'Agostino picked up a forfeit and still has a chance of placing in the tournament...
...French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history as a conquered people. One of the most popular plays in Quebec City, La Complainte des Hivers Rouges (The Red Winters' Lament), by Roland LePage, salutes the leaders of an abortive 1837 rebellion against the British with the lines...