Word: quitman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's tenacity is extraordinary. Apparently defeated in his first try for the state senate in 1962, he fought to prove ballot stuffing by the boss of Quitman County, Joe Hurst. Governor-elect Carl
Spacek lucked into her first movie part-in an overwrought thriller called Prime Cut-just five fast years ago. Before that, her professional experience had amounted to some high school theatricals back home in Quitman, Texas (she failed to qualify for the senior play, however); posing for a perfume ad; and landing a one-line part on a John Lennon-Yoko Ono record album. Prime Cut, which featured Spacek as a piece of hollow-eyed jailbait, did at least manage to get across a little of her country-fresh, city-smudged sensuality. Spacek (the name is Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced...