Word: ruralization
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...sang "Blue Suede Shoes" before Elvis did, in his Jackson, Tennessee home at the age of 65. Perkins was part of Sun Records' "Million Dollar" stable that also included Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. Perkins came from the same place as the others -- poor, rural and Southern -- but he spent much of his career on the verge, never quite making it into the big time. Case in point: In 1956, with his first big hit "Blue Suede Shoes" No. 2 on the singles charts, Perkins broke his collarbone in a car accident while on his way to perform...
...servers and their police escorts out of the village. When heavily armed Serb reinforcements returned next day, angry rebels ambushed them outside town and drove them back. Serb authorities have not dared return since, and the shadowy Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.) has rallied to the region and patrols its rural roads by night. Intentionally or not, the area around Vojnik has been made Kosovo's first "no-go zone" for the Serb regime and the center of a growing war of independence from Serbia...
...company received phone calls the next day from viewers asking where they could buy one. And the best barometers of mainstream America, Japanese junior high students, are buying the look almost exclusively, dragging their wide-bottom jeans through the streets of Kyoto and Tokyo. Phat Farm, the cartoonishly rural-themed stores selling the hip-hop label started by Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, says one-third of its customer base is in Asia...
Tension is still running high in the province. In a statement claiming responsibility for the murder of Treanor, the L.V.F. warned, "This is not the end." And the hard men from the Irish National Liberation Army sprayed a Protestant home in rural Newtonbutler with gunfire on New Year's Day. But if the leaders of the mainstream republican and unionist parties continue to stay calm, then 1998 for Northern Ireland might just end up brighter than it began...
...brutal honesty, real-life experiences and the rich wisdom of rusticated neighbors don't appeal to you, you will not like rural America. THOMAS E. LOONEY Crossville, Tenn...