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...rhythm-and-blues devil out of his instrument. He was flanked by a young white guitarist, who played astoundingly well in a Freddie King-inspired style, plus a more stoic black guitarist, two saxophonists, a vigorous drummer, a bass man and, ofcourse, brother Cleveland Chenier on his metal washboard...
...reasonably attentive driver" actually approached the bridge at 20 m.p.h. or so, the Digest asserted, he would have seen the bridge in time to brake safely to a stop. The point seems secondary; whatever Kennedy's speed that fateful night, it obviously was too fast for the washboard-like road leading up to the bridge...
...house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone of Russian Ballet-as Karpova is called in the program notes-sinks into a deep arabesque penché, her broad washboard chest straining under her satin bodice...
Although the prospect of disaster has been apparent to food experts since last winter, Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 23, formally declared a food emergency only six weeks ago. Belatedly the government has provided a few thousand dollars to charter trucks carrying food over washboard-rough back roads to the stricken areas. The current relief effort has been fairly well coordinated, in part because various U.S. agencies were already at work in Haiti when the food emergency was declared. The distribution program, which is being administered by CARE, is intended to feed 120,000 people until...
...until the 40's. But I started listenin' to Drag when I was only a little bitty fella.' He didn't play no bass, then. He played guitar and sang creole songs. He had a little group of 'bout three or four pieces. Had a fella slappin' a washboard" -- George made a washboard-slapping gesture--"and a fella on violin, and Drag. They would go all around to little picnics, and backyard parties, and wakes and weddin's. Wherever they could find food and liquor." He smiled...