Word: jim
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Moss’ most compelling interviewee, Jim, is still a river guide and has no family or real home. He dreams of spending his life caring for plants. His lifestyle, which doesn’t appear to have changed much at all after almost two decades, evokes both pity and admiration...
...Elvismania transcends the usual devotion to a white-hot celebrity, even one who has died before his time. Rudolph Valentino, Will Rogers, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Bob Marley - these stars may have left indelible niches in the hearts of their fans, but few built shrines to them. Rumors of their survival rarely blossomed into testimony of posthumous visitations. Nor did their homes become cathedral theme parks. Yet each year Graceland, Presley's residence in Memphis, welcomes more than half a million Elvisitors, and many are true believers: call them Presleyterians. Like the Christian liturgical calendar...
...left, operating on the flawed assumption that a person’s thoughts and beliefs can be ascertained by knowing the color of his or her skin or the sex of the person to whom he or she is attracted. More than two generations after the fall of Jim Crow and almost forty full years since Dr. King wished for the day that character would triumph over color, the left still doesn?...
...show will continue every Saturday, with Joiner broadcasting alone between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., treating listeners to the likes of Patty Loveless, Iris DeMent, Ralph Stanley, Jim & Jesse and D.L. Menard...
Cheney occupied the right edge of the spectrum in the first bUsh Administration too. nAtional Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, President Bush, Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell and sEcretary Of State Jim Baker all viewed Cheney as the Administration's unreconstructed cold warrior at a time when the cold war was coming to an end. Cheney would voice his opinions internally - even if he was usually overruled - but the debate stopped there...