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At the time, Ayers had a lower public profile than Rudd, who had held center stage at the Columbia University protests, and a much lower one than his future wife, Bernardine Dohrn, the miniskirted guerrilla hottie with her killer bod and folk-singer hair.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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TD: Yeah, Eddi Reader is a wonderful Scottish folk-singer that I've worked with before.
Mike Ragogna: The Decemberists Video Exclusive, Chatting With John Wesley Harding, Thomas Dolby and Stephen Kellogg, Plus Dancing With StevieMix Mike Ragogna 2011
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There was even an objector representing the folk-singer Arlo Guthrie.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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There was even an objector representing the folk-singer Arlo Guthrie.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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TD: Yeah, Eddi Reader is a wonderful Scottish folk-singer that I've worked with before.
Mike Ragogna: The Decemberists Video Exclusive, Chatting With John Wesley Harding, Thomas Dolby and Stephen Kellogg, Plus Dancing With StevieMix Mike Ragogna 2011
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At the time, Ayers had a lower public profile than Rudd, who had held center stage at the Columbia University protests, and a much lower one than his future wife, Bernardine Dohrn, the miniskirted guerrilla hottie with her killer bod and folk-singer hair.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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This is just one of many vignettes that could have made the list that are recounted in Linda Jaivin's The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics, and Life on the Edge, a memoir about the pop critic and novelist's friendship with Taiwan folk-singer turned Tiananmen activist Hou Dejian, and the curious intersections between rock and politics in the PRC in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China and Rock from John Denver to Axl Rose: A Top 5 List 2008
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We should note that this is a standard of enlightened tolerance that not even the former folk-singer Cat Stevens (now Yosuf Islam) could muster in response to the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses:
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But not as me, as Cinder Calhoun, my folk-singer character.
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Way back in 1992, Tim Robbins directed and starred in a film about a manipulative machevelian neo-con named Bob Roberts, who used his folk-singer charm and deep deception to dazzle the conservative faithful into a rabid cult-like following - while Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito) one lone reporter for a struggling left leaning magazine called Trouble Times attempts to expose the truth.
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