Word: socked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JESSICA'S FEAT Sock It to Me brings comfort to thousands...
...takes voice and piano lessons, and performs with a kids' musical group. (Her dream is to be the next Bette Midler.) A freshman at Salem High School, she has joined a literary club and is trying out for the golf team. On top of all this, there is the Sock It to Me campaign...
...older brother Jeffrey started Sock It to Me five years ago to earn a Boy Scout badge. Nurse Karin Tackett, a next-door neighbor and friend of the Burris family, gave him the idea: homeless people are hard on socks; for hygienic and health reasons, they are always in need of new pairs. If Jeffrey would collect the socks, Tackett would have the Georgia Nurses Foundation, which treats the homeless, distribute the socks at shelters in nearby Atlanta and Athens. Helped by Jessica and parents Herb and Patty Burris, Jeffrey got his badge. But Jessica decided the campaign had merit...
...bears little resemblance to her health-care crusade. The woman who once traded put-downs with House majority leader Dick Armey on Capitol Hill now makes her point by tousling the curls of a toddler in a day-care center for hospital workers in Florida, or cooing over a sock dog made for her by children in an after-school program at the Marine base in Quantico, Va. Even her wardrobe has been transformed: the powerful teals and reds of her health-care days have been replaced by Oscar de la Renta pastels, with pumps to match...
Listening to Redlight takes you back to the kinder and gentler days of youth culture, a time of high school sock-hops in small town America. Besides singing about love and heartbreak, the Slackers also sing about smoking marijuana and being "Rude and Reckless." A wide array of guest musicians further supports this old-time party. While Jackson irritatingly crows for the Pietasters, the Slackers use a three-headed singing attack of Victor Ruggiero, Marq Lyn and Jeremy Mushlin. The variety of individual vocal styles enhances the appeal of Redlight...