Word: towners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hill, like McGraw, was a small towner. She worked as a McDonald's dishwasher, among other jobs, before moving from Star, Miss., to take her shot at stardom in Nashville. "You just can't be around her and not fall in love with her," says McGraw. "I just got lucky that she felt the same way." One day, before his set, McGraw asked her to marry him and then headed off to the stage. When he came back, she had written her answer on the mirror in his trailer...
Back in 1992, the shop drew in another out-of-towner: it was one of President Clinton's favorite rest stops while he was on the campaign trail...
...That [Zinc] platter is my best-kept secret.Every out-of-towner needs to try it," said Susan AMacmillan of Waverly...
...saying" it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Lee had swallowed a distortion pedal sometime around puberty--there's more noise bound up in his voice than there is in most beat-up old amplifiers. And when he's got something to say, it's even better--"Towner on the B-Side," for example, seems to be a song about insecure people trying to infiltrate themselves into scenes in order to get a sense of self-worth from their new acquaintances: the "did it feel good/ when it felt good" that opens up each chorus comes...
...just show. New York has been portrayed in so many books and movies and stand-up acts that the stock characters know how to behave badly. They've all read their press clippings. The Jewish deli waiter knows what to say to an out-of-towner who asks if he could get a pastrami sandwich ("When I'm ready, I'll get" or "Listen, the pastrami here I wouldn't wish on Arafat"). The Irish cop knows how to act like an Irish cop who does not go overboard in showing respect to the citizenry. Some of the newer stock...