Word: kentuckian
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...contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women's clubs, is a courtly Kentuckian with effortless charm...
Lancaster, now 42, who was an acrobat for five years (for the Kay Brothers Circus, nightclub shows and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus), then bounced through two tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers (The Crimson Pirate, The Flame and the Arrow). He tried directing (The Kentuckian) with indifferent success, plans in future to concentrate on producing, act occasionally. He has great respect for Hecht, "an enormously well-read and literate man, a bright, shrewd...
...getting was not a matter of protest vote alone. For in Clements, as ineffective a stump speaker as oratory-loving Kentucky ever produced, Chandler was up against one of the shrewdest organizers in all U.S. politics. Clements, said one Kentuckian, has "made a career out of reaching around incumbent organizations and making his own wheels do the better turning." As majority leader of the state senate in 1944, he organized legislators and other politicians in the Second Congressional District so effectively that when he announced for the House, the incumbent simply retired. As a Congressman, Clements laid the groundwork...
...Kentuckian (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) strikes a note, pitched somewhere between a 59? moose call and a classic eclogue, that might suitably be called "Hollywood pastoral." It is raucous, but it has touches of poetry...
...beauty of The Kentuckian is not in the raw yarn, but in the loving country touch with which it was homespun. The script, taken from The Gabriel Horn, a novel by Felix Holt, was put together by A. B. Guthrie Jr., who has published, in The Big Sky and The Way West, two excellent books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that...