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...most prominent 20th century political dynasty (Husband Gene was elected Governor four times, and Son Herman served as Governor for seven years and four terms as U.S. Senator); in McRae, Ga. Six days after the Talmadges arrived at the Governor's mansion in 1933, "Miss Mit," refusing to shuck her rural demeanor, returned to the family's McRae plantation because she was homesick for the cows and chickens. She raised eyebrows again in 1936 when she spurned Eleanor Roosevelt's invitation to the White House because, she said, "I have to get my farm started...
...Author Edgar Rice Burroughs tried futilely to suppress. The story is familiar and faithful: Jane Parker (Bo) and her great white hunter father (Richard Harris) trek through the jungle and find the Ape Man (Miles O'Keeffe). But the plot is so much crinoline for Bo to shuck before cavorting au naturel with Tarzan or monkeying around with wildlife...
...eyes betray him. Whenever his image is challenged, or even when he merely pauses to contemplate the possible consequences of his outrageous shuck, they grow round with alarm. Then there is the problem of body language. Just when he is smoothing along nice and easy, something will throw him off-stride, and he will be afflicted by these strange jerks and twitches. And that says nothing about the sudden babbles of overexplanation that seize him when someone in authority intrudes on one of his scenes...
...lithe, tanned bodies. Brooke Shields and Chris Atkinson go from baby fat to puberty in the waters of a tropical bay. At first they swim in their underwear. Later, they shuck their clothes. They are growing up. Still later, they learn to make love. For the next 20 minutes, all they do is couple, on the beach, in the mango grove, behind the bamboo hut, and everywhere. They are almost adults now. The movie end when they intentionally overdose on red berries, the Fijian equivalent of Miltown. Totally grown...
...with specially groomed and graded trails, such amenities remain optional. Cross-country skiing can still conjure up the image of solitary figures etching fine lines in unbroken snow. Tim Murphy, a poet from Minneapolis, sees the sport as "a chance, if you seek out the right places, to completely shuck civilization and enjoy the pristine beauty of the snow and cold...