Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been going since she started, the youngest of seven children on a beef and hay farm in the Atlanta suburbs. "The house is real sequestered away from people," says Hunter in a lilting twang punctuated by the occasional dadgummit. "The farm isn't groomed -- there's a kind of wildness to the place. It's beautiful, a little Nirvana down there." Holly was the willful tomboy. "My father did not approve of my learning to drive a tractor," she says, "which is probably why I'm so stubborn. He made the rules, and I broke them. But, like everyone...
...Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years, but his high- pitched Midwestern twang still rang loud in every debate over economic policy, commanding the respect even of Republican economists who disagreed with his Democratic Keynesianism. Says Alan Greenspan, chairman-designate of the Federal Reserve Board and Heller's longtime colleague on TIME's Board of Economists: "Walter was clearly one of the giants...
Still, most of the songs are colored by the country twang of Davis' guitar and voice and the punk insistence of the rhythm. Like William Faulkner, Dash Rip Rock seems ambivalent about its southern roots, but that ambivalence makes its art richer. Plus, Dash Rip Rock must be a killer live band, but until it comes to the Northeast to play--and thereby to incite riots--Dash Rip Rock will suffice as a substitute...
STEVE EARLE: GUITAR TOWN (MCA). Country songs with a cutting edge and a Texas twang...
...speaks with a Southern lilt, one has a Boston brogue, one a patrician richness, one a Western twang. They represent four different regions of the country, reflect four distinct personal styles and stand for four divergent political traditions. Their total years in the nation's service come to 128, and with their retirement this year, they are each closing a chapter in the history of Congress. Russell Long of Louisiana is the sharp, smooth-talking, back-room Senate insider; Barry Goldwater is the quixotic loner whose conservatism was ahead of its time; Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland...