Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service and television reporters, all selected because they had once known Hughes, sat confronting microphones, cameras and a small telephone-amplifying box, which broadcast what was said to be Hughes' voice. For 2 hrs. the reporters questioned the voice. All of them afterward agreed that the occasionally quavering Texas drawl, the verbal mannerisms and the sometimes rambling descriptions of aviation minutiae could only have come from Hughes. Their judgment was later corroborated by Noah Dietrich, who had worked for Hughes and been his intimate for 32 years before they parted...
...Amiable Bear. None of their schemes, however, is any craftier than the author's handling of material that is a bit light-fingered with both Huckleberry Finn and True Grit. An amiable bear of a man whose down-home drawl is deceptively similar to Long Boy's, Joe David Brown, 56, is a native of Birmingham and a former writer and correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Addie Pray is his fifth novel and his third to be sold to the movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling...
...camic genius, a kind of funky Will Rogers in drag. She and Jane Forth are sorely missed in Flesh. and the verbal gags that remain to embroider the acres of skin rarely reach the preposterous level of charm that Flesh's successor maintains. Trash can have a streetchick drawl, "You got any LSD? You know, Lucy in the Sky, with Diamonds?" The boffs in Flesh, though, are much more sincere, and when the Warhol/ Morrissey Factory is sincere, it's pathetic. For instance, Joe says at one point with heart-rending earnestness to a hustler-colleague...
...most resonant cheer went up for a little old lady in a print dress and a cloth coat, who wrinkled her nose and shot her right fist aloft as she walked through the gate. The crowd mobbed her when she announced in a syrupy Southern drawl that her name was Nannie Leah Washburn, and that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them...
...Peter Barkin of Quincy, Jim Crump of Winthrop, John . . .," Lamar boomed in a semi-southern drawl. There was no answer. Three upper-class matches were scheduled and one freshman bout...