Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dilday earns more than $40,000 a year and lives only a 15-minute drive from his office. But while his wife Maxine, 35, and their two daughters relish Jackson's slow pace, Dilday restlessly misses the Celtics and Boston's other professional teams and live performances by top jazz groups. Says he: "When I got here, I couldn't understand why, when something needed to be done, it wasn't done today. There is not the competition here that there is in the big city." He complains also that the conservative white caste system that...
That lament by Journalist Henry Grady summed up the glaring lack of industrial development in the South in 1889. For almost a century after the Civil War, the economy of the old Confederacy seemed suspended in a bygone age of mostly small-to medium-size farms, sleepy businesses, graciously slow-paced cities, limited educational and financial opportunities and, for a large segment of the population, hardscrabble poverty. Today, after decades of growth, the South is in the midst of an epic transformation into a diversified modern economy, with a mix of manufacturing and services, industry financed from the North...
...school color, a half-time snack and something to throw at offending referees. When 60,000 University of Florida loyalists gather for a game, the world's largest beach party is under way, fueled by whisky and Gatorade. At the University of Georgia, wardrobes are planned for the slow stroll to seats behind the fabled hedges. Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, home of Louisiana State University, is a saucer-shaped bowl that amplifies every sound and helps screaming boosters live up to their reputation as football's noisiest fans. At Ole Miss, when the band plays Dixie, massed...
...languid evening in Fort Pierce, Fla., Stewart's home town, and the squeak of a front-porch rocker is music enough for now. Besides, one must rest after a supper of pork chops and okra. Digestion is a ritual, a time for introspective belching. "It stays nice and slow here," Stewart sighs. "Everybody's family. It's the South, and I'll never leave...
...Fort Pierce cop who helped write Stewart's first album, You 're Not the Woman You Used to Be. Eldridge has come to escort his friend, now somewhat lulled by the grease and beer, to the evening's performance. It is a Tuesday night, normally a slow evening, but the Flying Bridge Lounge is packed with a country crowd ready to greet the local boy with rebel yells. Men cradle sweating bottles of Pabst against their paunches and admire the sun-streaked blondes who prance about in cloven dittos and T shirts. The Flying Bridge is without...