Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandiose farming and ranching scheme Earlier, the Johnson had behaved as if they were a cut above the hardscrabble-farmer neighbors--his mother was a college graduate and his father a popular, respected state legislator, both descended from prominent pioneer stock, and their pride fired his ambition. But after Sam Ealy Johnson's fall. Johnson City and Blanco County struck back against their once-haughty denizens, systematically snubbing the Johnsons over a period of years. Humiliation reached a painful peak when Lyndon's high-school romance was thwarted by an angry father distrustful of his "dissolute, irresponsible" family...
...same. As Charlie Brooks waited to be injected, a crowd of 300 gathered to celebrate. Some of the pro-execution revelers, mostly college students, carried placards; KILL 'EM IN VEIN, said one. "Most of the people I know are for capital punishment," declared Paula Huffman, 21, a Sam Houston State University senior at the deathwatch. "And so am I. Definitely." Nevertheless, when the moment arrived, just after midnight, she and the rest of her shivering, smiling chums suddenly turned quiet and grave...
...parents did not want the sideshow life of a prodigy for the eldest of their three children. When the television show The $64,000 Question called, trying to book Jimmy for an appearance, they declined. When Comedian Sam Levenson wanted to cast him as a musical genius in a TV show, they turned him down. When the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhévinne of the Juilliard School first heard Jimmy play and said, "I must have this child," they told her to wait until he was older. Says Levine: "My parents handled all the critical decisions of my early...
...grandson of three-time Massachusetts governor Sam McCall, Tom McCall was a talented politician whose liberal leanings made him popular among Democratic as well as Republican voters. He was often mentioned in the mid-'70s as a potential Presidential candidate...
Nothing much happens. Charles' only friend Sam loses his job as a jacket salesman and moves in. His mother, alternately in a silver lame dress, bathtub, or asylum, has a bad habit of attempting suicide. Susan, the fresh-faced younger sister, "always appears to be happy and normal. She must know something," he muses. Reminders of the Sixties lie sprinkled about: Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing...