Word: peckerwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. It ranges across 20th century America, criss crossing decades. MacDaddy (David Downing) begins as a sort of hustler-prince, a Prohibition vintner on the trail of his vanished friend Wine, who represents a lost magic, the secret of the race. A funky and inventive Candide, MacDaddy travels through peckerwood racism, black venality, Tomism and the death's-head enemy, heroin...
...Some of them have been working for 16 years, and they just shrug their shoulders and say, 'Oh, well, a better day is coming,' " observes Larry Howard, 22, a Wichita State senior. "In Wichita, the peckerwood studies you and finds out where you're most vulnerable, and then he cuts you deeper. This is deeper than the way it's done in the South, and it isn't as open. There they say, 'Nigger, I don't like you, so what you gonna do about it?' Here they smile in your face...