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...tied a few of them and the pattern proved to be surprisingly effective, both in the riffles and in the smooth water, even at times when the all-black Spruce Creek Special or the redoubtable Black Ant would not work in the meadow pools." Says Fly Fisherman Editor John Randolph of Carter's prose: "He got everything in there. He speaks the language of fly fishing...
Exactly what made the clans so extravagantly unfriendly is open to conjecture. Maybe Randolph McCoy was sore at a Hatfield for stealing a razorback hog. Maybe he was angry at his daughter Rose Anne, pregnant by Johnse Hatfield after a frolic in 1880, for moving, unmarried, into the Hatfield compound. Or maybe the cause was the packs of Hatfields who crossed the Tug Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison...
...understand it, were too easy with their drinking back then. It took away their sense, made 'em too brave." Given the chance, Hatfields abandon impartiality as well. Says Henry D. cheerfully: "Really, the Hatfields won the feud. Devil Anse would have ended it any time. But Randolph McCoy was so irate. . ." Even Dutch, appalled by his ancestors' attack on a McCoy family home in 1888, reminds a visitor that the victims had "done something bad to my grandmother...
Crooks's report, which he wrote with Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president, determined that the Sociology Department's hiring record does not display a pattern of sex discrimination...
...EASE pays off by letting every character expand from comic stereotype to reality, exploiting, to the full the scope and potential of Samuels's approach--not to mention the richness of the play itself. An unfunny Malvolio is inconceivable, but the part can easily become unbelievable or grotesque. Christopher Randolph, without sacrificing any comic content, somehow makes his Malvolio heartwrenching as well...