Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was Mary, a middle-aged volunteer firefighter who kept making bad jokes, made worse by her incomprehensible nasal twang. Her 60 year-old husband kept videotaping...
Then a slender silhouette, her face hidden by wild locks of curly hair and a black leather jacket draped over her flowered sundress, glides in from stage left. Without even acknowledging the audience, she hunches her head over the microphone and starts to sing in sultry Texas twang...
Even without Brooks, the country sound has upset the cosmopolitan assumptions of Los Angeles and New York City, which said drawl-and-twang music would never acquire a mass audience. Country music was, after all, the sort of rube industry that made a vamp out of the cowboy by putting him in rhinestones and that churned out corn pone-ography like TV's Hee Haw, the show where banjo pickers and celebrity fiddlers would pop out of a field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled...
...James L. Walker. An ineffective "ivory-snatcher" (Phil Clandon's doubtful euphemism for a dentist) but a practiced man of the world, Walker radiates dashing vigor. It is a pity that he allows his cultivated accent to slip for a moment, in the third act, into an abominable twang...
...resonant Texas twang, Bradshaw drawls out the conditions that cause anguish in thousands of people. "Isolation. Aloneness. Abandonment. Skin hunger." Each, he says, is a feeling of deprivation derived from our childhood that was never resolved and sets us up to become addicts -- just as he was. And though we are grownups, we are still walking around with that wounded little kid hiding inside, wailing its needs. But wait, he adds, there's hope. By focusing personal consciousness on the frightened inner child -- as infant, toddler and adolescent -- we can all begin the process of recovery. "The goal of this...