Word: drawl
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...trying to do too much-a travelogue plus a report of things social, economic, political, religious, anthropological-it did almost nothing well. Instead, it frequently suggested a melange of scrambled lantern slides. James (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener's commentary, delivered in a tired drawl, was repetitive, primer-simple, and studded with long gaps in which the viewer was left without pertinent information about the picture, or even a clue as to its locale. The film was more than half over before Michener got around to mentioning the issue that makes Southeast Asia's present crucial...
...Nobody in the North understands this business." The drawl was unmistakable, straight from South Carolina. "You all seem to think integratin' niggers is like mixin' paint. You just pour in two pots and stir long enough and it comes out another color. And you can't understand why we'd object to the color of a man's skin, so you think we're all hypocrites. You act like you thought if you just talked long enough, and maybe sent some paratroopers to help talk, eventually we'd start getting' along with the niggers. You don't understand there...
...that time, Mary Gilliland, whose thick drawl had made trouble for the judges, was clearly over her head: in Round 23, she spelled eudaemonic with a "y" That left Sandra facing only Dana...
From Playwright Tennessee Williams, chronicler of assorted tales of bottom-drawl Southern hot cats and baby dolls, came a candid, do-it-yourself interview, courtesy of NBC-TV's Wide Wide World-with Williams answering his own tape-recorded questions. Excerpts: Q. Why has there been a disturbing note of harshness and coldness and violence and anger in your more recent works? A. I have followed the developing tension and anger and violence of the world and time that I live in. Q. Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life...
...fancy ball in Washington. D.C. is just like a fancy ball any place else, except that it is bigger, more fully packed and-when heavily peopled with gay Louisian-ians-easy on the drawl. Last week such a ball bounced bright and noisy off the walls of the Mayflower Hotel's grand ballroom...