Word: twain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHANIA TWAIN Sexy country singer wins top award. Guys agree: best Canadian import since Molson...
From Aristotle to Twain to Joyce, the complaint is the same: too much reading...
...hillside West Virginia farm plowed by a team of Percheron draft horses. School was his parents' kitchen, his neighbors' fields. Town was a country crossroads with two stores, and entertainment a new book from the library. And though the young man with the Old Testament name and the Mark Twain upbringing later went on to study at Harvard and Yale, mixing with the privileged and the trend-conscious, his heart remained in the hills, beneath the oaks...
...part of BTM's appeal is that the artists--from scandalized lip-synchers Milli Vanilli (whose story kicked off the series in August 1997) to Heart to Shania Twain--talk candidly about, well, pretty much everything. Mothers and fathers and siblings and lovers spill too. Because artists often own the rights to their songs--and BTM relies on them for permission to use that music--VH1 won't do the show without their cooperation...
Audacious musicians are the best. They've been all over the map with their talents and tastes, they've been a part of power-pop band The Semantics, they've toured with Shania Twain, Pat McGee, Amy Grant and Janis Joplin to get a foothold in the music industry, they've jammed with Ben Folds for fun. And then they retire to their living rooms in Alabama to craft their solo pilot over four meticulous years, which they subsequently drop off at the major labels with a rakish take-it-or-leave-it attitude until Giant Records snaps...