Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blues singers, spawned in the sorrow of the sharecroppers' shotgun shacks (so called because the rooms are one behind the other, allowing a shot fired through the front door to sail straight out the back door -- unless something gets in the way). Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James ("Son") Thomas -- most of modern American music has its roots in the Delta. Big Jack ("the Oil Man") Johnson plays there now, one of many with more coming on, including his nephew, James ("Super Chicken") Johnson...
...police responded whenever an alarm shrieked wolf, they would waste time and taxpayers' money, and dull their own crime-fighting reflexes. The endless ululations of alarms in big cities fray people's nerves, inure them to noise and, on a deeper level, undermine their civic morale, their subliminal expectations. Crime, no crime -- the distinction vanishes in undifferentiated wailing and rage. The machine screams. The quality of life within earshot dies a little more...
...Homo homini lupus," Dark Willard would remark. "That's Latin, guys. Man is a wolf...
...hypersensitive, unsupported wolf-cries of "racist!" and "sexist!" made by a few radicals could make the rest of us reluctant to attack real--and unfortunately prevalent--cases of racism and sexism in America today...
...gets a few more phone calls and a little more mail than us, but besides that he's a very normal roommate," Al Wolf says. "The only thing that's been really different is watching his on TV and saying, 'Hey that's my roommate...