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...Starline/Capitol). This is one of the few examples of genuine bluegrass. Buck Owens figures that "all I gotta do is ac' naturally" to be the biggest star, and he's right. His flat, nasal shout relies for accompaniment on little more than electronic twangs and a passel of whooping colleagues, while he delivers the ordinary man's poetic visions: "When I first saw you, babe, you nearly made me wreck/My ole '49 Cadillac...
...dressed in everything from Sunday best to overalls, pigtails, Carnaby Street suits, miniskirts and chromed Nazi helmets. A succession of 81 bands-most of them gifted amateurs out of regional coves and hollers-competed in the school auditorium and gymnasium and a nearby revival tent. In addition, a passel of noncompeting performers fiddled, sang or plucked banjos wherever they could scare up an audience-in the classrooms that were used for warm-up rooms, in the parking lots, in the shadow of the tent. Everywhere the air was filled with the dum-ditty-dum-dum rhythms, sprightly scraping and mournful...
Before packing to go home, the general assembly demolished a passel of passé prohibitions: Virginia's ancient predilection for pay-as-you-go budgetary procedures; the inviolability of the state constitution; a ban on sales of liquor by the drink; an end to billing poll-tax payments; an end to racial segregation in jails and prisons. Has the Old Dominion gone liberal? Decidedly not, insists the chief architect of change, Byrd-Democrat Mills Godwin, 53, Governor since 1966. "It's realism...
...with Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The publishers must be funnin'. Unwittingly, Berry Morgan, a 47-year-old Mississippi housewife, has produced the dadgum laughingest parody of magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns...
Meanwhile, back at the mansion of Land Baron E. G. Marshall, a passel of vulgar new-rich Texans pledge donations to found a college near by, in order to protect their young against the perils of an education at Harvard. Marshall's son, played by Britain's James Fox, drawls endearments to Jane Fonda, who conquers a casting error as Bubber's faithless wife, making trollopy white trash seem altogether first class. Actor Redford, as Bubber, plays a born loser engagingly but cannot quite mask the clear-eyed confidence of a boy born lucky. All three finally...