Word: huck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possessor of long blond hair and a mellifluous, if reedy, tenor voice, the wearer of gold-rimmed glasses and neatly pressed shirts, Denver is the Tom Sawyer of rock-and he has acquired a vast following of Becky Thatchers and Aunt Pollys as well as a few Huck Finns...
...Townsend, 25, doctoral candidate in English and American literature at Harvard who tutored her in Southern writers. Kennedy and Townsend are such Mark Twain fans that in the summer of '72 they recruited three friends to help build a raft and ride the Mississippi for 21 days in Huck Finn style...
...American painter coated with a more adhesive legend: the salty country boy who never went to school and picked it all up in his father's studio; the brusque down-Easter with a Huck Finn smile who never went for that French art stuff and never once moved out of America. The weathered faces of Wyeth's favorite subjects -Christina Olson, Karl Kuerner or Ralph Cline, the veteran patriot with a skull like a parchment-covered round shot-have become nearly as familiar as Charlie Brown or Donald Duck. They are seen as icons of survival and indomitability...
...noble deeds, perilous cave exploration, playing 'hooky,' and otherwise escaping the realities of life--all intermingled with the inescapable wit of Twain--kept this city boy from Detroit fascinated through many of his grade school years. Perhaps, then, it was deja vu--memories of happy hours spent with Tom, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and company--that motivated me to see what the Reader's Digest, making its debut as a film producer, had done to my old favorite in the process of adapting it into a movie musical...
After each performance, the Otrabandists push out into the river again. There, as Huck Finn said, things are "mighty free and easy and comfortable," despite an occasional near collision with a barge. "We like the idea of just being taken by the current," says Actress Diane Brown. "You can take a deep breath and. whew...