Word: hillbillyism
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Steven Brooks, a client of Inman-Ebel's with his own direct-mail company, says some customers tell him his accent is cute, which is hard for a 28-year- old entrepreneur to stomach. "We have a designer for our ads, and that's image. We have a WATS line...
The scene is a composite of dozens of war movies, one of those celluloid images that have become part of the collective mythology. In the foxhole, the baby-faced private is writing a last letter home; the hillbilly soldier is whistling a ballad; the taciturn corporal is just staring wide...
But before taking on the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gore has at least 14 more debates to go with his fellow Democrats, followed by what could be a donnybrook of a convention in Atlanta. Last week he was working his way through the South...
Patsy Cline's voice was a wondrous instrument, a plangent contralto aged in whisky and barroom cigarette smoke, with the traditional hillbilly yodel transformed into the gasp of a mature heart breaking. All evidence suggests she earned that voice. In her marriage to Charlie, she shows that she can stand...
KENTUCKY IS probably best-known outside its borders by the slogan "fast horses, smooth bourbon, and beautiful women." Kentuckians themselves don't find this stereotype too offensive, although stage and screen depictions of the racist "white trash redneck," or of the feuding, murderous hillbilly, sometimes can cut to the quick...