Word: tonks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday night, the World Wresting Alliance - they're the cheesy, third-string ones - came to the Fort Jackson Community Center for a Bob-Hope style troop show. Those who came got a bellyful of junk food and a lineup bristling with both has-beens (Honky Tonk Man, Doink the Clown, the latest incarnation of The Patriot, if you follow that sort of thing) and never-will...
...Dell saga began 14 years ago in a muddy field across the street from the County Line, a Virginia Beach honky-tonk. There the police found the lifeless body of Helen Schartner, 44, a secretary. Her head had been smashed by blows from a handgun, and she had been strangled until her neck snapped...
...Village Idiot, 355 W. 14th St. between 8th and 9th Streets (989-7334): If you're too squeamish to slurp down your own goldfish at this rowdy honky-tonk, you can feed it to the snapping turtles in the tank...
...like small towns and rural areas and sports like skiing and fishing, even bigger bargains can be found in retirement-friendly parts of the Deep South, the Rockies and the Southwest. In honky-tonk Branson, Mo., the heart of the Ozarks, $120,000 will buy you a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house. By contrast, the same amount would be good for only a 20% down payment on a four-bedroom house in tony Westchester County...
...mostly good, home-cooked fun, but sitting through the 26-song album is a bit like enduring a 26-course meal. The best song is the calmest: Brooks' solemn reading of Bob Dylan's To Make You Feel My Love. The album's biggest flaw is American Honky-Tonk Bar Association, a demagogic number that mocks welfare recipients. A true populist would show empathy for people who can't afford his albums...