Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martha, meanwhile, again held an impromptu press conference on the streets of Manhattan. "John Mitchell was the honest one in the whole lousy bunch," she said in a tense drawl. "And whom do you think he has been protecting? Mr. President he has been protecting-under no uncertain circumstances. They tried to make my husband the fall guy, but he's the good...
...ramshackle capital of Monrovia used to look a little like a gigantic Mississippi riverboat minstrel show. The men at the Masonic Lodge dressed in top hats and black morning coats; the ladies at the Baptist church wore flowing skirts and bandannas; and everybody spoke in an exaggerated Deep South drawl. In these mannerisms they imitated both their forebears, freedmen who returned from the U.S. in 1822 and subsequently founded Africa's first republic, and their president, William Vacanarat Shadrach ("Uncle Shad") Tubman, who ran the country with a kind of dandified despotism from 1944 until his death...
...Petty race, ask him which of his many records−750 victories over 15 years, $1,411,788 in prize money, four Grand National championships−he takes the most pride in. Richard, a lanky, rawboned dude, chomps his cheap cigar and says in his best potlikker drawl: "I guess in still bein' alive...
...Agnew's voice does not ultimately prevail in 1976, it may well be because Republican ears are more finely attuned to the Texas drawl of Democrat John Bowden Connally. Any day now, his intimates insist, Big John will throw his other long leg over the fence into the Republican corral - formally switching parties as a necessary step toward the Republican presidential nomination. Connally believes that he has been encouraged in his decision by Nixon. For weeks the President has been privately promoting the former Treasury Secretary as his possible successor. Through the alchemy of Connally's ambition, that...
...about to emerge again from behind the anonymity of his work. Still--and De Antonio can't fail to show this much--there is a certain incongruity between say, the spare stripes or chevrons of Kenneth Noland and the explanations the artist delivers in a North Carolina drawl. Or, equally incongruous, the contrast between Frank Stella--sitting on the floor of his studio, dressed in an old sweat shirt and looking for all the world like Woody Allen slightly lisping his reply to the charge that his paintings are cold and detached--and his paintings themselves. If the incongruity itself...