Word: drawled
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...tells the other five people at a New York City dinner table about how her superstrict parents never let her sleep over at friends' houses, there are chuckles of recognition. There are equally empathetic, if more sober, nods when Grace Chang Lucarelli, 32, speaking in a soft Texan drawl, recalls "people making fun of me" because she was one of the few Asian Americans in her town. The people around the table grew up in rural Texas, suburban New Jersey, upstate New York, small-town Virginia and the real O.C. But they are the children of parents who immigrated...
...ornate Garden District of New Orleans. Cooper and Peyton relegated little Eli to the ignoble role of center, the guy who snaps the ball to the glory-hogging quarterback. "Every once in a while they'd throw a pass to me," says Eli in the barely detectable Delta drawl he shares with Peyton. "If I dropped it, I wouldn't get the ball the rest...
...formally call Bush with her decision until Wednesday night, by then the deed was all but done. Her meetings with Senators were not winning her any support. One who attended them described her as "smitten by the President," talking endlessly about her admiration for him in her soft Texas drawl. She was unfailingly gracious, but she faced a tough crowd, and the private prep sessions were just as shaky. By that time, conservatives were so riled, even a Bush win would have been a loss. The cost would have been permanent, unforgiving fury from a whole swath of his base...
...which she so fully embodies her character that the two may forever be inextricably linked. Adams is Ashley, the pregnant North Carolina native and self-appointed welcoming committee for her new, blue-state sister-in-law into their small town. With those impossibly doe-like eyes and confident drawl, Ashley is a woman satisfied because she fully understands everything in the world around her, and happy because she understands just a little bit more (her favorite animal is, she exclaims matter-of-factly, the lemur). And when a long-foreshadowed tragedy strikes, she gives a 10-hanky breakdown as spiritual...
DIED. SHELBY FOOTE, 88, Civil War historian who became a national celebrity--much to his befuddlement--after lending his courtly eloquence, encyclopedic expertise and honeyed Mississippi drawl to 89 appearances in the 1990 Ken Burns TV series on the war; in Memphis, Tenn. He wrote six novels, but his most famous book was a panoramic, three-volume history of the war, written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals...