Word: ruralism
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Sheldon, the main academic advocate of somatotyping, grew up in rural Rhode Island. His father, a naturalist, judged county animal fairs and taught Sheldon how to classify living things, says Ellery Lanier, a former protege...
...with preparations for the social event of the year--the evening's debutante cotillion. Aspiring deb SuzyBelle Mallard (Erin Delaney) arrives in a state of crisis, her hair dyed blue by a foreign hair dresser. SuzyBelle's rebellious and cynical sister Clair (Silje Normand)--a misplaced British feminist in rural Texas--shows up with their grandmother Barbara (Liz Amberg), who seems to want to have her hair done, despite being in a state of dysfunction somewhere between stroke and delerium tremens. Down-to-earth beauticians Jody (Christine Genaitis) and Karin Littleton (Bronwen Cowan) preside over the madness with wry amusement...
...Most of the federal legislators who areoffering these policies live in rural states," shesaid...
...intriguing character and unusual doctor. ("My nose," he asserts, "is one of my principal diagnostic instruments.") "We old men are garrulous," Hullah says in passing, and he seems in no greater hurry to end his life story than he does to stop living. He recounts his pilgrimage from a rural Canadian village through school and World War II service in the medical corps with cool good humor and plenty of diverting asides ("What has nature produced more totally ravishing than a beautiful, witty soprano...
Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr obtained an indictment against Neal Ainley, the former president of a rural Arkansas bank that handled campaign funds for Bill Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial race. The federal indictment accuses Ainley of having conspired to violate banking-reporting laws that are aimed at discouraging illegal money laundering--though the motivation for allegedly violating the law in this case was unclear. Ainley flatly denied the charges...