Word: rednecking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANYWAY Jack Chick and I are in the cop car and he turns to me and says 'Say we're in big trouble.' And I say 'Yes we are.' So our cops are headed home and this truck comes cruising out of the woods with an old redneck bear with a big gut at the wheel. Cruising out there with a six pack of beer and a mean old dog in the back and gun racks in the window and the cops stop him and he's just been cruising around, y'understand, fox hunting I believe...
...explained that he didn't "want to see a Corps" composed of "a Virginia redneck caste of officers," and that he himself was a Dartmouth man, sympathetic to "liberal, intellectual colleges in the Northeast." "When I talk to the Texas A.M. boys," he smiled and said, "I know I'm superior...
...become impotent or cranky or both. Like Harry. I try to remain kind of open. Revolt, rebellion, violence, disgust are themselves there for a reason, they too are organically evolved out of a distinct reality, and must be considered respectfully...I try to love both the redneck and the anarchist bomb-thrower. I think they're both anarchists...
...Mission: Impossible) has asked to have his name removed from the credits of his first film, Corky, which is soon to be released (directed by Leonard Home). Geller says Aubrey's changes made the central character, a violent garage mechanic, too sympathetic, played down the picture's redneck setting and eliminated a climactic murder scene. Says he: "It's not my picture any more." > Director Blake Edwards (Pink Panther, Darling Lili) has stopped post-production work on his film A Case of Need, and instructed his lawyers to file a breach of contract suit against Aubrey...
...Displaced Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile speculations grow deadlier, she recalls a newsreel showing bodies stacked in a concentration camp, then thinks of -"ten billion...