Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrewd businessman who reads books and presents himself as less intellectual than he actually is, but that is simply a reflection of self-deprecating Southern humor and a long-standing desire to be a "good ole boy" having a few brews and shooting the breeze at his gas station...
...commercialization of that image he blames on the media "about 95 per cent of (whom) would be on welfare if they weren't reporters," although he admits he himself has pushed the redneck idea "a little bit too far." In truth, he says, he is a good ole boy, not a redneck...
...some point early in her marriage Chiang Ch'ing took charge of [a] son of Mao's (whether he was Ho Tzu-chen's child was unclear). This little boy evidently had been sent to Moscow and later returned to Shanghai, where he was put in the care of a priest, a man with two wives who turned out to be vicious women. They beat the boy so mercilessly that his sense of balance was permanently impaired. How well Chiang Ch'ing remembered his little body rocking crazily left and right. Even years later he still...
...Hudson (Scott), a famous sculptor, twice divorced, living in the Bahamas in 1940. Insofar as Hudson's story is a love story, it refreshingly focuses on his love for his three sons by both marriages (Hart Bochner, Michael-James Wixted, Brad Savage). During a long visit by the boys early in the film, he painfully reaches toward them across gaps of isolation, resentment and pride-his own and sometimes theirs. Later, when the oldest son is shot down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly played by Claire...
...education possible-but Grambling does not put much emphasis on its black studies program since careers in the field are limited. Jones argues vigorously, however, that predominantly black colleges should not be merged with previously white state universities. Says he: "We understand the problems a young, often poor, black boy or girl faces. Put them in an institution where few understand their problems, and they are lost...