Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school, though, I was so busy with extracurricular activities and classes that I missed out on some of youth's simple pleasures--lawbreaking and endangering life and limb. I feared lighters, loaded guns, and Confederate flags, all best sellers at Southern fireworks outlets. When I got to college I couldn't even afford the reckless abandon of the rich kid--who discovers his parent's credit ceiling and breaks it buying drugs...
...changed over the past decade. My mother says I've developed more "Yankee-land" characteristics, breaking out of my cloistered Southern background and becoming a city...
Frank Perdue and Dinah Shore cross drumsticks in the Great Chicken War. -- An elegant new book on Southern cuisine...
...read: this politician isn't just campaigning, he is introducing money to the state before the election), and the air conditioning was failing left and right. Jackets went first, then neckties. We made a car- to-car inspection in an effort not to melt, and were reminded of our Southern mother's line, i.e., Southern women don't sweat, they glow...
...Angeles and Manhattan. Lengthy excerpts from her book, simply titled Miami (Simon & Schuster; 240 pages; $17.95), appeared over the summer in the New York Review of Books. Didion's credentials as ; novelist and essayist are well established. Play It as It Lays set the '70s standard for Southern California malaise, and her journalism was carefully calibrated to record fine cracks in sanity and personal relationships. She has expanded more recent reportage and fiction (Salvador, Democracy) to poke along the fault lines of the commonweal...