Word: drawl
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...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...
Lord Peter expired after a mere eleven novels, smothered by the author's love for her creation. But Allingham took a critical look at her man. By Death of a Ghost (1934), Campion had dropped his drawl and the pose of an amateur adventurer and become a professional detective. He acquired a wife and child and a manservant, who had been a cat burglar until he put on weight...
...When I was in Cambridge," he began to drawl, "nothing angered us more than when the national security policymakers came and said to us, 'Our policy is the best possible policy, all alternatives have been considered, and you wouldn't be so unfriendly if only you knew what we know...