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Senator Thad Cochran(R-Miss,) was having a party of his own last night, popping balloons by the score on the convention floor. To do most of his spearing, he used a pocket knife, which he jabbed relentlessly at conventioneers' feet. "You know, a good Mississippian never comes without his knife," he told amused on-lookers...
...characters, exquisitely played under Lloyd Richards' direction, are a gallery of types but come across as individuals. Among them, the restaurant owner, Memphis (Al White), is a former Mississippian who was cheated of his property and driven from his farmstead for the crime of succeeding where a white man had failed. Risa (Cynthia Martells), the restaurant's sole waitress, gets her hope from religion and prophecy. Wolf (Anthony Chisholm) is a petty criminal, a numbers runner for the white Mob who gets along by going along. Sterling (Larry Fishburne, star of the movie Boyz N the Hood) is a rambunctious...
Among the offenders is the man who was responsible for running the bank: House sergeant-at-arms Jack Russ. The 46-year-old Mississippian, who had personally floated checks totaling $56,100, resigned under pressure last week. The move followed news reports suggesting that Russ, who claimed to have been wounded in a mugging on March 1, may actually have shot himself in the cheek in order to deflect criticism over his handling of the bank during his nine years on the job. Russ, who denies the rumors, ignored repeated warnings from the General Accounting Office that the check-writing...
...Rice, a Mississippian, was equally at home in the cold, showing hands like an Eskimo in catching five balls for 133 yards. On his first TD catch, he leaped high into the air to grab the ball; on his second, he reached down and grabbed the ball at his ankles as San Francisco took a 14-3 halftime lead...
...send his agents wading solemnly through a Jessup swamp in their dark gray suits, looking for all the world like a lost patrol of Blues Brothers. The result is only frustration and conflagration, as Negro churches, schools, shacks go up in flames. Anderson, a native Mississippian, knows how to talk to the natives: threaten the men, seduce the women. He will take a razor to the neck of Deputy Sheriff Pell (Brad Dourif). He will take flowers to Mrs. Pell (McDormand), who functions as the town's guilty conscience. Her husband ignores and abuses her; now she has the chance...