Word: hick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developed an inexplicable obsession with professional wrestling. First he satirized the macho sport by wrestling women, crowning himself the Intergender Champion. Then he launched a feud with Memphis, Tennessee, wrestler Jerry Lawler, and things began to get out of hand. He was seriously injured more than once, goaded the "hick" Memphis fans with increasing venom and began to worry even his closest friends. ANDY KAUFMAN: I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD (Shanachie Home Video), an extraordinary account of Kaufman's ring exploits, chronicles what was either the shrewdest put-on in comedy history or a brilliant performer's mental breakdown. Your call...
...life enthusiasm for the Gap and Banana Republic. The President-elect's constant battles with his weight might influence fashion were not Levi's already hitting it big with Dockers, which are cut with a baby boomer's sagging physique in mind. "Bill Clinton is half hip and half hick," explains Steve Rabinowitz, one of the traveling staff members on the campaign plane. "You want to write about the hip part, but sometimes the hick part gets...
Three murderous drug dealers (Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Beach, Cynda Williams) blast and bludgeon their way from Los Angeles to rural Arkansas and a face-off against a hick sheriff (Bill Paxton). Tracing a similar itinerary, ONE FALSE MOVE has snaked across the country. Too pensive for the action houses and way too violent for the croissant crowd, the movie has earned many critics' indulgences. It does have some B-movie virtues: director Carl Franklin gives the actors space to breathe the rancid air of paperback tough- guy tragedy; and Williams, with her lovely insolence, looks like star quality from...
...biggest houses, the highest per capita income and the most fastidious taste. It rejected the new national Shell station decor because it was tacky. Cordova--which may or may not be part of Memphis--is just a little livelier. Raleigh, Bartlett and Frayser claim not to be hick suburbs, but you should go see for yourself...
...mayor's critics say Fresno should not get too big for its britches. It remains a hick town in some ways, short on cultural resources. The main entertainment events are football games in the Fresno State Bulldogs' stadium, / to which towns people flock, all wearing red shirts, and tailgate parties are the nearest thing to a town meeting...