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...much for the more or less serious candidates. Chief Burning Wood, an "honorary" Hopi with "some" Delaware blood, will soon be on the political warpath in company with his dancer wife, who performs with snakes around her neck. A Tennessee preacher promises to walk the length of New Hampshire with a camel. A more pragmatic Indian also is scheduled to walk through the state-on snowshoes. Benjamin Fernandez, a Californian who wants more private-sector loans to small business, will be on the ballot, hoping to attract New Hampshire's nearly nonexistent Hispanic vote. A maker of stuffed frogs...
Michelle's plea is that only the lack of a preacher made her relationship with Lee any different from that of any married couple. She produced a sheaf of love letters in which the actor claimed he lusted after her, saying that her coming to him on location was his "bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow." Lee pooh-poohed the missives as the kind of thing fellas tend to write. If measuring love was like a fuel gauge, he said gallantly, his feelings for Michelle never got above "half a tank...
...lives, and life is as it has been for 100 years. The men meet at the Coon Hunters Club to swap stories. The women spend a good deal of time making quilts. They also keep the Methodist church as near as in the days when they had their own preacher. APCO is offering "a fair market value" for the land, which means up to $3,000 an acre for cleared fields, $500 for woodland. Townspeople know they cannot find the equivalent near by at that price, because the Gap lies on the edge of richer and more costly terrain...
...lesson to be learned from this film is that a good preacher is not necessarily a good actor. Gortner has great presence. With a good director and a little humility he might learn to act. The movie itself is pretensious and insulting to its audience. It promises a lot but delivers a confused mishmash, a midnight stoned rave on film...
...last November, Thelma outdid herself. She had watched restlessly as Governor Carroll, a Presbyterian lay preacher and political gadfly, proved so prone to travel that he became known as "the Flying Deacon." She also felt he had failed to provide solid leadership on tax cuts over Kentucky's ineffective legislature, which meets only 60 days every two years. When the legislature left Frankfort without doing anything to soothe the state's increasingly irate taxpayers, Thelma started watching the Governor's schedule. Aha, she spotted a trip. She polished her plans...