Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Focusing on the circumstances leading to an old man's death and decay in a swamp of quicksand, the work is, as Ionesco described it, "rather sad--the story of a man who does not know his reason for living...
...album's other high points come with "If You Can Touch Her At All," a meditative sad song, and "Don't Cuss the Fiddle," which leads into an impromptu chorus of "Goodhearted Woman." But perhaps most engaging is "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" the quintessential country song about putting quarters in the same Wurlitzer every night, playing the old songs and thinking about a woman. And even Waylon's death wish, which came through on the uneven Luchenbach album when he recorded "Sweet Caroline" and sometimes makes you think he wants...
...tell sad stories of the death of kings...
...couch and considered the future: "I'd like to keep the title for 15 years, the longest any man, white or black. Not even Presidents ruled that long. I'd like that." He grinned wolfishly. "But one must face reality. We all go down eventually. And this makes you sad, but you always have, for the rest of your life, the knowledge that you were a winner to the last. I want to go out a winner. I really...
...SAD FACT demonstrating the administration's penchant for containment is confirmed by a reenactment of a similar string of events two months later. On November 4, Congressman Eilberg called Carter to tell him that Marston was using his office to advance his political career and he and his fellow Pennsylvania Democrats felt the Republican attorney should promptly be removed. Either three or four days later--the record is still not clear--Carter called Bell to inquire about the Marston case to ask him about the status of the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia. Bell answered that he expected to replace...