Word: baxley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Included in the 18 who lost subsequent bids for election was Dick Clark, the highly respected liberal Senator from Iowa who fell victim to a right-wing, right-to-life attack. Bill Baxley, crusading attorney general of Alabama, lost a race for Governor; Luther Hodges, successful bank chairman, lost a Senate primary in North Carolina to a man who outspent him 20 to 1; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers...
...beginning of the campaign, his most likely successor seemed to be Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, 37, a populist in polo shirt and plaid pants. But he lost last week to Forrest ("Fob") James Jr., 44, a former star halfback at Auburn University '55 and a millionaire manufacturer of sporting gear. James' victory showed that Jimmy Carter's tactics can still pay off, at least in the South. His lavishly financed $2.5 million campaign played up his role as an outsider with no ties to the political system. That image was reinforced by Walker & Associates...
...Past Tense begins, the stage is not quite bare. The stripped-down living room contains two sets of hand luggage-his and hers-and a sofa shrouded in a white slipcover, symbolic, perhaps, of a once warm marital bed. But Emily (Barbara Baxley) and Ralph Michaelson (George Grizzard) soon fill the room with the emotional furnishings of their life together. So much of love is shared experience that a permanent parting seems unreal...
This play is likely to alter its coloration depending on who plays the two parts. Barbara Baxley's Emily is crisp, managerial as well as motherly and yet touchingly vulnerable. George Grizzard's Ralph is Little Boy Blue, destined never to grow up yet always capable of a last-ditch courage bordering on the heroic. It is the most compassionate portrayal of a man that Grizzard has yet achieved...
Lois Nettleton, who plays Christina, says she has modeled her own character on Clark Gable, which may be the best clue yet to what All That Glitters is about. Barbara Baxley, the terrifying L.W., says that she didn't need a model. "As an actress, I've been aggressive and independent most of my life." She adds: "The great fun of the show is that Norman has created a whole new world. The cast has discovered that men and women are mutually misunderstood. If this show isn't considered revolutionary -and if people don't understand...