Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race? Now comes a chance to revitalize yourself and a rural community at the same time. Residents of Minnesota's Koochiching County, whose biggest town is International Falls (pop. 10,000), are trying to boost their sagging population by giving away up to 40 acres to each brave soul who takes up residence there. To qualify, applicants must be financially self-sufficient and bring a business or a useful skill with them. The county has received 27 applications, four of which have been accepted...
...band's long history together with its newfound fortune and reckons, "If we have a hit album this time, it will work out to a minimum wage over the last eight years." Adds Don: "We had to go outside of America, to a place where black music and older soul singers are revered. Remember, not only were these guys black in a supposedly white band; they didn't even sing in the modern black style. They were out of vogue...
...gentlemen in question represent the classic poles of soul. Sweet Pea Atkinson sports an open shirt and a pirate's booty of gold chains that make him look, according to a standing band joke, like "a killer pimp." He worked on a Chrysler assembly line for eleven years; when he sings, his voice is all rough edges, Wilson Pickett-style, that soar and spar. Sir Harry Bowens may still be unknown to Burke's Peerage (relax, guys: his knighthood is self- imposed), but fans of the O'Jays will recognize the cool, platinum elegance of his phrasing. He sang with...
Word of the sting prompted widespread soul-searching on the normally ebullient trading floors of the Merc and the Chicago Board of Trade. "There's paranoia in the pits today," said a futures trader. "Nobody knows just how much the feds have got and against whom." Several panicky traders who reportedly had been subpoenaed sold their exchange seats, including one on the Merc that went for only $330,500, a sharp drop from the previous sale at $380,000 only a week earlier. Many traders worried about what the scandal might cost Chicago's booming markets in terms of lost...
This is one of Mississippi Burning's two main fictional conceits: that the FBI broke the case in part by locating not the fear and greed of a Klan informant, but the flinty, vindictive soul of Southern integrity. The other conceit is as low-road as the plot twist in a kung fu scuzzathon. The film imagines that the FBI imported a free-lance black operative to terrorize the town's mayor into revealing the murderers' names. Taken (like much else in the picture) from a report in William Bradford Huie's 1965 casebook, Three Lives for Mississippi, the scene...