Word: ward
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There are any number of voices singing behind and slightly to the left of Brooks, and plenty of impressionable ears waiting to hear, including many who are wandering over from the scorched earth of hard rock and many who are tuning in from the realms of pop. George Ward, assistant director of the Texas State Historical Association, cautions purists about the "romantic tendency to look at country as having been purer in the past, and less commercial. That is misleading, because it was commercial from the start." True enough. But never before has country been so pop-specific...
Singleton comes by this determined sense of self -- which sometimes borders on cockiness -- naturally. "The confidence is in the genes," declares his father Danny Singleton, the model for the compassionate father in Boyz. Says his mother Sheila Ward: "John takes pride...
Like Tre, the lead character in the film, Singleton is the child of teenage parents who never married and who took turns raising their son in separate households. He moved in with his father just before his 12th birthday. Both parents eventually put themselves through college. Ward, now 42, is a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company; Singleton, 41, is a real estate broker...
...politics is local, so it also reflects personal loyalties. "It's often who recruits you that determines where you go," says Sandy Thomas, the president of the Chicago Social Club, a business that organizes sporting and social events for 6,500 dues-paying members. Thomas lives in the 43rd Ward, a haven for upwardly mobile whites, whose popular alderman, Edwin Eisendrath, is a Clinton man. "Edwin asked me to sign a fund-raising letter for Clinton," says Thomas, "so of course I did." But Thomas will vote for Tsongas. As a former schoolteacher, Thomas should be attracted by Clinton...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...