Word: twangs
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...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...
Shortly before Representative Tom DeLay announced he would leave Congress by summer, half a dozen advisers were on a conference call debating how to unveil their stunning secret. Suddenly, DeLay's Texas twang silenced the chatter. "Anybody wanna hear what I wanna do?" he asked mischievously...
...school in Vancouver in the 1990s, Case played drums in a couple punk outfits. Her upbeat alter ego from those days still surfaces regularly when she sings with the New Pornographers, Vancouver's indie pop-rock supergroup. And Case has also been in cahoots lately with Toronto twang-rockers, the Sadies, who share song-writing credit on a few Fox Confessor tracks and add instruments on a few more. Case's musical wanderings are no doubt part of what makes her talents so appealing to so many. Fox Confessor isn't so much a showcase of her versatility as much...
...Some calamity. Some sissy. Hedrick, the Texan known as "The Exception" for his twang and hard-charging lifestyle in an often stodgy Euro-centric sport, won America's first gold medal in Torino on Saturday, finishing the 5,000-meters in 6:14:68, just two-hundredths behind the Olympic record. "She gave me a little extra push today," Hedrick, a Houston native, says of Geraldine. "I could just feel it." One down, four to go: Hedrick, who is chasing Eric Heiden's record five speed skating gold medals, will next race on Wednesday, in the Team Pursuit...
...management firm at the time, 19 Entertainment. (19, the company owned by show creator Simon Fuller, has the right to sign any Idol contestant; another contractual obligation. It had no comment on this or any Clarkson-related matter.) "To be totally honest," says Clarkson in her gentle twang, "the problem was I wanted to write a lot of my own songs on Breakaway. Nobody else wanted me to. So there was a big ol' fight...