Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressions is not the sort of question political pundits bother their pretty little heads about. It may be worth noting, though, that in recent weeks the New Republic has carried cover drawings of Bush as a dunce, with the tag line WHY AMERICA LOVES STUPID CANDIDATES, and as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, with the tag line THE HARDEST JOB IN POLITICS: THE WOMAN WHO HAS TO GET GEORGE BUSH A BRAIN...
...this month in Laramie. After leaving a bar together, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson drove Shepard to a deserted field, beat him savagely, tied him to a wooden fence and left him exposed overnight. A cyclist who found the bloody body the next day mistook it for a scarecrow...
...first single, "Angels Would Fall," bleeds the raw passion of her previous albums, but with a new maturity. "Scarecrow," her chilling ode to Matthew Shepard, the gay student murdered in Wyoming last year, pleads for tolerance as it vividly describes Shepard's violent death: "they left you cold and breathing/for love they crucified you." Hurling forthright honesty into a field known for placing image over substance, Breakdown achieves unadorned vulnerability and foreboding emotion...
...50th anniversary performance of the musical, which opened on Broadway in 1948 and ran for an impressive 792 shows. Featuring music and lyrics by Broadway great Frank Loesser, Where's Charley was later turned into a movie in 1952. The movie starred Ray Bolger, better known as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, who won a Tony for his performance as the original Charley...
Although he's made some fine pop albums in the past, notably Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), Mellencamp says he's been moving beyond arena-filling pop. "Scarecrow is a square record," he says. "There's no countermelodies. Just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus. Square songs can be the most beautiful songs in the world. [But] around '88 and '89 I got tired of making square records...