Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pickup truck five hours to Tennessee to try for a job on a road crew. At the construction office he was asked to fill out an application form, but it was beyond his ability. So he took the form and retraced his five-hour drive back to his wife Wanda Lou, who filled out the application for him and mailed it in. The stress is wearing on him and on his marriage. "Sometimes I feel like raising a gun and shooting my brains out," says Jones. "I feel like I ain't much, like I'm down on the bottom...
...show is more shrill than Donahue. Phil still scores his coups (he had the first TV interview with Wanda Holloway, convicted of plotting the murder of her daughter's cheerleading rival) and does his homework. But his hyperventilating style has reached the point of self-parody, and his exploitative gimmicks are growing increasingly shameless. No one but Donahue could kill an hour debating whether beauty contests in bars are demeaning to women or just good clean fun -- or manage to keep a straight face while trotting out, after every commercial break, a different trio of scantily clad women to demonstrate...
...Wanda Webb Holloway may be the ultimate stage mother. Last week a Houston jury found the 37-year-old suburban housewife guilty of concocting a bizarre scheme to assure her daughter Shanna a place on the high school freshman cheerleading squad by killing the mother of her chief rival, Amber Heath. With flawed but cold-blooded logic, Holloway concluded that Amber would be too distraught over her mother's death to compete against Shanna for the coveted position...
...Wanda Webb Holloway, organist at the local Baptist church, is an irrepressible stage mother. Two years ago, when Shanna was up for the cheerleading team, her mother tried to have rival Amber disqualified from the competition on a technicality. Last year Holloway inadvertently got her own daughter disqualified when she showed up at school and handed out promotional pencils and rulers imprinted SHANNA HARPER CHEERLEADER...
...Heath alone. Holloway has pleaded not guilty, and the trial is set to start in June. In the meantime, school principal James M. Barker still believes in healthy competition. "After all, it's the American way. We all want our children to achieve. There is a part of Wanda Holloway...