Word: fatback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancestors of those deprived mountaineers left the crags of Wales and the glens of Scotland while his forebears were still sharing the parlor peatfire with the pigs? Their English may hark back to Elizabeth I, as do their music and customs, and they may live on poke salad and fatback, but in some ways they are better off than the rest...
...honor of Southern womanhood is represented by a couple of highborn hussies (Janice Rule and Victoria Shaw) who offer their fair white bodies to the herdsman hero (William Holden) like so much fatback on a plate. The manners of the Southern gentleman are exemplified by a courtly colonel (Richard Widmark) who, in an episode obviously intended to titillate amateur analysts, shoots off the hero's little finger...
...takes an uncommonly big man to run a state like Texas, or "Coonass country," as the Governor calls its rural hinterland. Fenstemaker goes with the job as red beans go with fatback. His instincts are generous, his vision broad, even if his political methods are not exactly taught in civics class. To ram a school bill through his ornery legislature takes all the wiles of a sagebrush Machiavelli...