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...then as a librarian, that used her abilities and interests to good advantage. And she doesn't fit the cliche of a Texas woman. She doesn't have big hair or wear heavy jewelry. Her style says, "You're not supposed to look at me. You're supposed to listen to what I have...
...public interests will remain education, childhood development and literacy. Exactly what forms those interests will take she doesn't know yet. The idea for the Texas Book Festival was suggested to her, and then she made it happen. Now I suspect something similar is in store. She will listen until she hears the right idea and then move decisively. "You know," she told me, "if you look back, you see that the First Ladies tended to focus on just a few issues. Lady Bird Johnson with wildflowers and highway beautification. What a lasting impact that has had on the country...
Hank Williams? He's on the juke box, singing about long country roads and broken hearts, and there is Charlie Parker, the man who turned jazz inside out as if he'd just pulled it through the sleeve of his coat, listening. Entranced. A bystander asks Bird to explain what he's doing paying such close attention to music that is so beyond--no, beneath--the jazz horizon. Parker has an easy answer. "Listen to the stories," he says, and keeps on listening...
...suffering a heart attack in some women. A long-term study is expected to produce a definitive answer sometime during the next five years or so. Until then, women with high cholesterol levels should get plenty of exercise, limit the amount of saturated fat in their diet and listen carefully if their physician suggests taking a cholesterol-lowering drug...
...first track up is this one, and it is a joy. And I was immediately transported back to the Jones I know and love. Though at first listen it appears to be a somewhat forbidding dirge - a slow-paced recitation of the good deeds that will put one on the path to the Pearly Gates - it proves to be a one-track demonstration of almost every weapon in the Possum's considerable vocal arsenal. The first line is understated, almost spoken. The second builds. The third is a crescendo, culminating in what must be the most fabulous single-syllable word...