Word: redneckedly
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...long before the fish appear-at least when he is not too drunk to speak. One day he offers Skelton his bookings; he has killed another man, he claims, and will soon be in prison. When the younger man finds out that all this is only a casual redneck ruse, he sets fire to Dance's skiff. There is only one riposte to that act of war: Dance promises Skelton a speedy death if he ever tries to guide in the Keys. Skelton orders himself a skiff...
There he founded a student pre-law club, played the part of a redneck witness in a campus production of Inherit the Wind and wrote a senior thesis on "The Social Responsibilities of the Political Novelists." He earned a master's degree in public administration from American University in 1962 and his law degree from Georgetown...
...with bright light so that everything will show up clearly on the home screen. In a theater, where the image is much larger, such a misconceived technique makes the actors look as if they were being paraded through a police lineup. Scenarist Don Carpenter has provided some pretty good redneck dialogue, and there is a well-observed performance by Michael C. Gwynne as Maury's tense, troll-like manager, who looks as if he regarded the daylight hours as a direct threat to his health...
Father and daughter have both long been widowed, but at 70 the old man is sanguine enough to marry Fay, a redneck trollop 30 years his junior, and introduce her into genteel circles. Fay is in every way Laurel's opposite-a shrewd, stupid vixen with a "little feist chin" who questions any altruistic gesture made to her, not out of skepticism but simple inability to comprehend...
This year's extravaganza got under way with a parade down Lexington's main street with bands, floats and real live jackasses. George Wallace's float, naturally, was a yellow school bus loaded with his mock delegates toting serious placards: REDNECK POWER. Another realistic touch was a token mob riding in a Jeep bearing the sign: MOCK