Word: drawled
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...Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's other landmark. His mouth has the patient downturn of one who has endured flood and drought, and can survive this occasion too. When he speaks to the overflow audience, resolutely ignoring the mike, his parched hills-and-hollows drawl has the rasp of red dust in the throat on a July afternoon...
Which is not to deprecate the individual performances, which are generally quite good. Ellin Merhbach is wonderful as Laurie, the lewd bank-teller; she's titillated by the vortex, but she's got enough common sense to avoid its bottom. Michael Escamilla's lazy affected drawl is the perfect voice of doom, and he fills the part of Charlie completely. Maggie Topkis, for the most part, pulls off her characterization of Carol as the tough but sensitive New York Jewish earth mother. Alex Pearson is adequate as the seductive con on the make; if he has some problems, it might...
...genteel Southern drawl rises to a high pitch because he knows you are going to come back at him with a contradiction, a challenge, a word about reality. Otherwise, though, he remains calm; no more than a second or two passes before he's ready with a lengthy answer. Recognizing his secular inarticulateness, he nonetheless slides over questions about the nuclear arms race, the state of the economy--ultimately, all the issues of the election. And he knows that this new-right pitch has shocked and disgusted even his fellow ministers: "When the majority of the religious people in this...
...housewife pauses while vacuuming the rug. Her drawl is as broad as her smile, as she declares herself "proud" to be from the "Bible Belt." But she is a mite disturbed about all those ministers meddling in politics. "Jesus didn't tell us there was only one Christian way to think politically,"she says. ";If my preacher and I don't tell anybody how to vote, then nobody's going to tell us how to worship. That's the American way, isn't it?" View ers who agree are invited to phone or write...
...massive presence, a powerful man, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs., with sharp eyes and a sharper wit carefully sheathed by a down-home demeanor. His face is seamed and sunbaked from a lifetime on practice-field towers and stadium sidelines. His voice, a rich Southern drawl, is rarely raised; there is seldom any need...