Word: mule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delighted partisan audiences with his swinging attacks on Johnson. The Administration's domestic programs, he said, resembled a "20-mule team harnessed at night by a blind, one-armed idiot." There was the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, the Fair Deal of Harry Truman, and now the "ordeal" of Lyndon Johnson. He also produced a passable caption for a future Romney administration. "A new generation of progress," he said, "is forming up on the horizon." As usual, Romney laced his talk with moral homilies, and even his discussion of public responsibility carried a churchly ring. He told an Elks...
...classic of the genre. Stagecoach was one. So was High Noon. This year A Fistful of Dollars is the feature that dares to be different. It may well be the first western since The Great Train Robbery without a subplot. A man (Clint Eastwood) rides into town on a mule, kills a whole bunch of bad guys, kills some more bad guys, and then as a change of pace, kills some more bad guys. Then he rides out of town. Music up. Fade...
...mother, a cold-eyed prostitute, abandons her, and her father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs, and imagines the lost meaning of her life in bizarre epiphanies: a glimpse of flowers growing in a dead mule, an encounter with an albino Negro boy who "ain't got biddie brains in his head...
...would hear the voices echoing along the creek bottom and he would chime in with That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, or maybe just practice up on his yodeling. Come sundown, he would toss his hand-me-down Sears, Roebuck geetar into a gunny sack and ride the family mule six miles into town to pick up 75? playing square-dance music...
Biggest Killings. Arnold is not denying his roots; indeed, with the slightest prompting he can discourse endlessly on the subtleties of mule breeding or coon hunting. Most of his early memories are of hard, hard times. His father died when he was eleven, and he eventually had to quit high school to work the family's sharecropper farm. At 18, he hitched a ride on a cottonseed truck and landed a job singing on a radio station in Jackson, Tenn. After three years of internship with Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys ("I sold song books...