Word: twangs
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Other than sunniness, Ray's main attribute is accessibility. She positions herself at all times as the Everywoman with the hick upstate--New York twang. Like a sorority girl cooking for a charity event, she calls her dishes "yum-o" and says things like "Good thinkin', Lincoln." On her first few shows, she plays up the fact that--oh, ditsy Rachael--she has a limp at the moment because she fell down the stairs in her house. At a segment at Sterling Vineyards in Napa Valley, Calif., in which she and Puck choose wine for the Oscars' Governors Ball...
...boards. The buzzword: "flex memory"--or "flex"--the way a board snaps back into its original shape in a turn or maneuver. "The materials have a memory of the original curve, and they return to that curve very quickly," says Firewire's Mark Price. "It gives you that twang-like effect when you're coming out of the turn. It's almost like a bow releasing an arrow...
Until he saw the light, Jon Taggart--6 ft. 5 in., jeans, white cowboy hat, Texas twang--was a rancher like any other in the southern Great Plains. He crowded his cattle onto pasture sprayed with weed killers and fertilizers. When they were half grown, he shipped them in diesel-fueled trucks to huge feedlots. There they were stuffed with corn and soy--pesticide treated, of course--and implanted with synthetic hormones to make them grow faster. To prevent disease, they were given antibiotics. They were trucked again to slaughterhouses, butchered and shrink-wrapped for far-flung supermarkets...
...Bush proposed flying down on Air Force One to his ranch. "Got a new shipment of ducks-we can find them and hunt them down, one by one. And bring them to justice, or whatever." The transcript notes that Bush's voice suddenly took on a more pronounced Texan twang. "Whaddya think-just a couple of average Joes from the South, kickin' back on the weekend," said the New Haven-born, Andover-schooled Yalie...
...doubtful that Nicolas Sarkozy has ever heard of the late Texan country singer Ernest Tubb, a rhinestone cowboy with a honky-tonk twang. But last week the French Interior Minister seemed to be humming a French version of Tubb's 1970 classic "It's America (Love It or Leave It)." "If it bothers people to be in France, then it shouldn't bother them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps...