Word: shucking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cousin, nicely played by Strother Martin, he squared off in earlier episodes against big-city decadence (the season opener featured a gay apartment house, an alcoholic actress and an attempted rape of a Lolita-like minor). But in next month's installment the pair will really get to shuck the corn. They will return to Jim my's home town in West Virginia to defend a man accused of committing a blood-feud murder with a muzzle-loading rifle...
...whose abdication of personal responsibility made anti-heroes out of Dean and Brando, Fonda and Hopper. The film builds to a crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees it all as a shuck, refuses to go and hits the road out of town, pursued by his new fiancee Drenna Valentine (Anne Archer), who talks very sincerely in movie-magazine captions: "And the dumb part is I really do understand and don't really expect you to jump on any white horse...
...doesn't work out that way, however. A certain amount of hot air is expended on the subject of political inquisitions in movieland, but Redford shucks his integrity without reference to political morality, and Streisand manages to shuck him over what seems a rather minor bit of marital infidelity on his part...
WILLIAM B. SHUCK...
...outlined an elaborate pre-game schedule for his team Sunday, beginning with an early-morning meal with Harvard vice president Upchuck Daly. Shuck has been kind enough to offer his home for the pre-game breakfast," Bok said. "And besides, I think it's a good idea to solidify with Cambridge's other breakfast Daly...