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That same spirit now permeates the sports palace of S.M.U., where Biology Professor William Stallcup Jr., S.M.U.'s interim president, declares, "This has united the faculty like never before." Of any good-ole-boy tendency toward backsliding, Philosophy Professor Serge Kappler says, "I can't imagine business as usual again. Faculty and students wouldn't stand...
...dear ole Red Sox, we'd buy out the marts...
...national issues played little role in Graham's victory. A Harvard- trained lawyer, he won largely on the strength of his ebullient good-ole- boy personality and his unabashed state boosterism. "The future of America is Florida," he says. "If America deals with Florida's problems today, it is dealing with America's problems tomorrow." As Governor, Graham endeared himself to Floridians through his once-a-week "workdays," when he would leave his desk to get the feel of a nonpolitical job: schoolteacher, hospital orderly, flight attendant, migrant farmer, even one night on the stage in The Fantasticks. That gave...
...collaboration) True Stories has down-home flakes down pat, but here they are too pat. Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked...
Hawkins has the misfortune of being up against Florida's beloved Governor Graham, a gung-ho campaigner who makes Ronald Reagan look like a melancholiac. He pumps palms and kisses babies with good-ole-boy abandon. He dresses in Cuban garb and struts down the streets of Little Havana handing out cigars and autographed photos. And, yes, he even sings his own campaign song: "You've got a friend in Bob Graham/ Let's send him to Washington and make Florida No. 1 . . . Bob Graham is a cracker/ Be a Graham cracker backer...