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...Potato, Two Potato isn't even worth trying, unless you have an extremely low tolerance. Expensive drinks with a minute amount of alcohol--orange juice at the Store 24 is cheaper and barely less intoxicating...
While all this is part of Carter's world, he is a Southern farm boy at heart who still knows how to turn sweet-potato vines, chop cotton and pull peanuts, and who looks homeward to a hamlet so archetypically Southern that it is almost parody. Beyond that, he is a bucolic devotee of hunting and bird 'dogs, stock-car racing and rock music -notably backwoods Georgia's own Allman Brothers. Says he of Georgia rockers in general: "They're good boys. I understand them...
...beneath, all of it swept back along an unusually neat part; a smooth unflappable brow, something a gambler might try to cultivate (you cannot tell when he's riled or when a political card is up his sleeve by reading this brow); unremarkable eyebrows and ears; something of a potato nose; and the eyes of a predator bird...
Witness their constituents in Southie. Racism pervades the life. The-Irish endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most...
Witness their constituents in Southie. Racism pervades the life. The-Irish endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most...