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Just what this country needs: a vague, big-spending, fast-talking hillbilly redneck in the White House. May God help us.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 29, 1976 | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Eventually, the intersectional balance began to shift in favor of the South. The tipping point came in the Great Depression production. The first sign of the change was a renaissance in Southern literature. A brilliant group of Southern poets, novelists and playwrights threw off the bonds of imitation and poured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE SOUTH TOMMOROW | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

A lot of the entertainment here is restricted to people over 21, but no one takes age any more seriously than the pair of kids in Liberty Square. "The World Famous 2 O'Clock Lounge," its facade emblazoned with the graceless silhouettes of dancing women that look like the figures...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Zone for Tremulous Flanks | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

We Be Here is mostly large chunks of miners' dialogue and still photos that avoid the sensational. Reid and Woolley portray sensitive, shrewd, brave mountain folks instead of hillbilly pawns. Like a similar documentary four decades ago on Alabama tenant farmers by James Agee and Walker Evans, We Be Here...

Author: By Bob Garrett, | Title: More Than the Ol' In-Out | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

Dern is different-so macho that the only things in his face that move are his eyes, navy blue and sparkling, and even they do not blink. His icy authority has lifted his more than 100 character portraits in TV shows and some 30 mostly mediocre movies from the mundane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Will Bruce Dern Become a Star? | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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