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Wilkie, 39, is an affable Mississippian with an accent that sounds like marbles rolling around in a pail of Delta mud. A drooping mustache and gray-streaked hair that tumbles over his collar contribute to an aspect somewhere between a Confederate cavalry officer and Catfish Hunter. He began his career with the Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register (circ. 7,325), got his first taste of national politics-and a highly flattering portrayal in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Grouse's book about the 1972 campaign-at the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal (circ. 133,000) and hired...
...those curmudgeons you grow fond of simply because he is so deadpan funny. But his sarcastic bark is a stoic camouflage for his losing bite on life. In one affecting scene, Norman goes out to pick strawberries and returns shortly with an empty pail. A memory lapse has prevented him from recognizing the old path and reduced him to a frightened child seeking the solace of a familiar face...
Exercise programs also give employees a chance to work off job and family frustrations. Chicago's Excello Press began a fitness plan a year ago after an irate pressman hurled his lunch pail into a press, causing $30,000 in damage. Now, says Excello President Gary Feldmar, "workers have a much more relaxed attitude. They can slam a racketball against the wall and pretend they're hitting their wife's head, or mine, and release tensions in a heal...
...have anything," she replied, "You need to buy a new pail...
...ploy uses the author Ledda himself to introduce the movie--he hands a shepherd's staff to the actor portraying his father--and to deliver the epilogue to his own story. Another device comes when the young Gavino (Fabrizio Forte) curses a goat for repeatedly defecating into his milk pail--and the animal responds in a surly feminine voice...