Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apollo performance covers only one side of Roadwork. The remainder of the two-L.P. set is devoted to performances of White Trash on its home ground--the Whiskey A Go Go in L.A. and the Academy of Music in New York. Here the band has both form and substance, performance and communication...
Like Britain, the U.S. luckily has not until now had much occasion to grant amnesty. There is precedent for it, however. George Washington pardoned those who participated in the so-called Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, and Abraham Lincoln offered forgiveness to lower-ranking members of the Confederacy in December 1863. That, of course, was 16 months before the end of the Civil War, and could be read as a shrewd tactical encouragement of defections. But Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, extended the clemency to the South after the war, over the opposition of the Radical Republicans...
Rabbit knew the guy was half-crocked: "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...
...Miss American pie, Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, Singin' 'This'll be the day that...
...Kefauver represented Tennessee and shared the predominating views of that state on segregation, he was not a Progressive Democrat on civil rights legislation; he spent his greatest energy defending the Tennessee Valley Authority from the clutches of private interest, much as other Southern senators would champion tobacco, cotton or whiskey. He lost many of his important legislative battles in Washington, and was even less successful on the national political scene. In 1952 and 1956 he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President; his only reward was the vice-presidential spot in 1956, from which he and Adlai Stevenson slid...