Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land of pastures of plenty. But the source of this wealth is the labor of thousands of poorly paid, migrant workers who are kept in line by hired goons and their competition with each other for scarce field jobs. While living with the migrant workers, Woody meets up with Ozark Bule (Ronny Cox), a country singer and union organizer (Bule actually is a composite of several musician-agricultural workers' union organizers Woody knew during that time) who gets Woody a steady job at a local radio station. For a while Woody divides his time between radio performances and union organizing...
...photograph like "Mrs. Mulhall and Child, Ozark Family, Arkansas, 1935" may seem casually taken, yet it is a perfect picture. The mother, child and doll are incongruous in size, expression, and surface texture. They are also rather desperately poor. Another photograph of these subjects could have been chaotic or shocking or both; Shahn's is tied together formally by intricate series of triangular rhythms and rescued from pathos by the contentment of the child and the alert concern of its mother...
...concentrate on hitting strikes." For a man his size he even has speed. He has been clocked at 4.3 seconds from home plate to first base. "I could steal a base every series if I got the green light," he says. He rarely gets it because Manager Danny Ozark prefers not to risk injury to the man who rings up so many of his team's runs. With Cash and Bowa preceding him to the plate, Luzinski has ample opportunity to drive in runs. "We have cruisers and PT boats," says Catcher Bob Boone of the Phillies' attack...
...swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people. Yet, in the end, one wonders if the tribunal to which Benton submitted his work and attitudes was not some jury of average, sensual Midwesterners but rather the ghost of his father, a stumping, swilling, iron-throated Ozark Congressman whom he revered. "Dad was profoundly prejudiced against artists, and with some reason. The only ones he had ever come across were the mincing, bootlicking portrait painters of Washington who hung around the skirts of women at receptions and lisped a silly jargon about grace and beauty. He couldn...
...Flowers and Trent Lott, though on opposite sides, spoke with the easy fluidity and courtesy of their heritage. Mezvinsky was the new boy, carefully following the mood and model of his elders, Cohen the engagingly gawky bright boy of the class. Missouri's Hungate, full of sometimes slightly hokey Ozark folklore, designated himself the comic, just as California...