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...South restored to its proper importance in national politics. But he did not always hold so lofty a view of Jimmy. As a veteran of the civil rights movement, he had thought that "nothing good could come out of southwest Georgia," and felt that Carter came from the "meanest cracker country there is." But Carter's mother Lillian, whom Young met in 1970, smoothed the way to a meeting of minds. Young was impressed by the fact that she joined the Peace Corps at the age of 68. Later, he ran into Carter in a black restaurant, when Carter...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the foold services, said Thursday it would be too expensive to provide full Kosher meals for Passover, but added that "we do buy matzohs--those flat cracker-like things--and the students can always eat at Hillel House; we also provide tuna fish as an alternative...
...gullibility or perversity, Steinberg has chosen to portray Rayburn as a statesman of principle, integrity and elevated vision--a poor country boy who, through hard work and trust in the Lord, grew up to be "by far the greatest" Speaker in American history, and a hell of a cracker-barrel philosopher to boot...
Elton John's music is very much like Cracker Jacks. Once you get a taste, they're hard to stop eating, even if they don't have much nutritional value...
...before the meeting of this preposterous pair that Pride of the Bimbos excels. Sayles has a deadly accurate ear for Southern cracker dialect ("Chick at awl?" asks a South Carolina gas-station attendant); the jabbering at a sand-lot baseball game ("Chuckerinthereissgahcantit"); and the good-ole-boy humor ("if that woman fell down a well, you could pump ugly for a week"). Best of all, the gruff friendship between Burns and the young son of a teammate is successfully played for both laughs and pathos; as it does in all initiation tales, the moment comes when the boy must measure...