Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...L.D.I. coffee is served in mugs that read ABORTION STOPS A BEATING HEART. A smiling young man sitting in front of a word processor, one soon learns, was once arrested for his role in an antiabortion demonstration. And L.D.I. founder Mark Crutcher, a friendly man with a Texas drawl, becomes deadly serious when he talks about an impending "civil war" between pro-life and pro-choice forces...
...runner Bob Dole, he remains little known outside Texas and Washington. And though he is considered one of the most skilled manipulators of the media in politics, he is in some ways ill suited to national exposure. He is, by his own description, "ugly." He speaks in a deep drawl that calls to mind the often grating cadences of Lyndon Johnson. Combine that with his certain endorsement by many right-to-life groups, and an image emerges of an ungainly, deep-fried reactionary with little chance of carrying the moderate vote on Election Day. His droning, pedantic keynote speech...
...that confronts the arriving audience. Cigarette holder in hand, he contemplates a written page. After the houselights dim, a young man comes on stage and begins to type. The projection changes to a blank piece of paper. The young man lights a cigarette, then addresses the audience, his wry drawl and courtliness gently recalling Williams himself...
...voice, with its deep drawl and homespun poetry, sounds familiar. "Mah name's Lidia Simmons, an' Ah'm 12 yeahs ol'. An' these here're mah memoirs." Jeez Louise -- it's Forrest Gump as a girl! With scenes of slow-talking good guys in the U.S. South and dead buddies on Vietnam battlefields, The War might seem the first in a bunch of Gumpthings hoping to replicate that film's $285 million success story. But on a smaller scale, The War is a bigger movie and, for all its weepy trappings, a more adventurous one. It hints that it will...
...843rd squadron into the air, where expatriate Texan "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) and his crew are shocked by their orders to deliver approximately 60 megatons of nuclear devices to sites in Russia within two hours. Over the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Slim's Texas drawl offers a few inspirational words to the crew: "I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong feelings about nuclear combat." The boys drop their new issue of Playboy, Slim replaces his flight helmet with a Stetson, and the crew is battle-ready...