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Not all the new families are as dysfunctional as the one on Good & Evil, but few seem very happy together, at least initially. In ABC's Step by Step, two single parents (Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers) marry and merge their respective three-child broods; the kids are at one...
On the other hand, John Goodman (Roseanne) portrays local exterminator Delbert McClintock as a much lighter character. McClintock has no desire to study the vermin, nor does he fear them; he simply revels in destroying them. The absurd pride with which this cross between Rambo and a Beverly Hillbilly goes...
That elitism is more than just using terms like "hillbilly." Lots of conservatives do that. It is the liberals' contempt for the values of rural Americans--religion, patriotism and law and order--that kills them on election day.
Cheap rent, warm sun and clean air are just some of Quartzsite's attractions. Winter residents also enjoy an easy and active social life: evening bonfires, potluck dinners, dirt biking, rock hounding, panning for gold (and finding it), plus more dances than you'd find in a teenager's calendar...
The artists who embodied it best were Benton, Wood and John Steuart Curry. They hardly knew one another. But it happened that Henry Luce was looking for a patriotic circulation builder for the Christmas 1934 issue of TIME. Walker was duly interviewed, Benton's self-portrait went on the cover...