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...easily concealed and inside all the evidences are there, aimless hulks of matter lacking any energy or muscle. So somnolent, dull and lifeless an Advocate I have not seen before, for the editors have ruthlessly stuffed her full of all the idle weeds that grow in our sustaining corn...
...until he was past 50 that he found the materials that he now prefers-sheets of copper, bronze or silver, which he bends, hammers and brazes to enclose his forms. His skill is impressive, but even more so is the splendid chaos of his ideas, a mixture of corn and stabbing truth that often is close to surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture of an old lady's hand, which he placed in a fading plush box and gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with...
...five short weeks, country corn sent CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies to the top of Old Smoky in Nielsen ratings. Its climb was one of the swiftest in the history of television. Scheduled opposite the supposedly invincible Perry Como, it shot him daid...
...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...
...they are called Beverly Hillbillies, and this is one time 35 million people aren't wrong. Like ABC's I'm Dickens-He's Fenster. the show is supplying an apparent demand for straightforward, unsophisticated, skillfully performed humor. "It's my kind of corn." says Director Whorf-"right...