Word: rolled
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Never mind the artifice. Never mind that Tritt calls his songs "country music with a rock-'n'-roll attitude," or that Ken Kragin, one of the country's key managers, calls Brooks "to some extent a George Strait clone . . . kind of a cheerleader running around onstage, whipping up enthusiasm." Forget all that and remember Willie Nelson's observation: "It doesn't matter to a real music fan whether the guy has on a hat or not. The real talent, when it gets an audience, will show through...
...coming weeks they are being joined in musical stardom by Raul Julia and pop singer Sheena Easton in Man of La Mancha, Peter Gallagher (of the movie sex, lies, and videotape) in Guys and Dolls and Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood, while the Australian drama Shimada, about a Japanese-led corporate takeover, will offer Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara and Estelle Parsons. Al Pacino opens...
...taxes pledge and for signing last year's Civil Rights Act, which Buchanan calls an unjust quota bill. Buchanan rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal...
...realize that he had to show immediate foot in the North to avoid being tagged a regional candidate," Clinton said several months ago. "I'll do well on Super Tuesday too, but Illinois is basically the ball game. If I score there, I've got the momentum to roll in the other big Northern states. Lose there and, well, let's just say it won't be pretty. Illinois is the real test...
They'll see the 5'6" point guard storm by Brown's 6'5" Martina Jerant for a pretty hoop off a finger roll...