Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEIJING--Military rescue teams and doctors yesterday worked to reach a remote and mountainous southern region where the government said China's worst earthquake in 12 years had killed more than 900 people...
When civil rights activists commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday last year with a march in predominantly white Forsyth County, Ga., the Ku Klux Klan turned up to provide harassment and abuse. Fifty of the demonstrators, represented by attorney Morris Dees of the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the Klan on grounds of conspiracy to violate the marchers' right to free expression. In Atlanta last week, U.S. district judge Charles Moye unsealed the verdict: Klan and Klansmen owe the marchers $950,400 in damages. It was the second wallop of a verdict against the K.K.K. lately...
...Wait a second. You can make your own judgment about the Willie Horton ad. But when the southern regional coordinator of the Bush campaign says we're going to push Mike Dukakis so far to the left, he's going to be to the left of collard greens, black-eyed peas and strip-row cotton, that's not very subtle...
...Rogers Grey, Louisiana U.'s Magnolia Queen of 1956, who blossoms into a principled businesswoman even as her marriage to a college football star withers like a corsage she forgot to press into her yearbook. Within the hash marks of familiar sports drama, the picture aims to be a Southern-fried epic, and Lange nudges Babs toward that goal. She is Scarlett O'Hara who almost becomes Maggie the Cat -- until, in the '80s, she ends up so strong and nurturing she could be a Lear's cover girl...
...toss dewy-eyed soul into a line like "I just want to be Mrs. Gavin Grey" -- all ardor, no condescension. She can bear, with a smoldering fuse, the later ordeal of player's wife and baby factory. She can tease Donnie while ironizing her flirtation: "It's every Southern mama's legacy to her daughter." She can seize control of her own life and still stand by her man. Gavin may have embodied, as the film suggests, "everything that the South wanted to believe about itself." But as she matures in this role, Lange comes close to embodying everything...