Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore righthander Derek Lennon, who had relieved starter James Kalyvas in the fourth, tossed a perfect bottom of the seventh to ice the Bulldogs, salvaging what could have been an absolutely horrendous weekend in southern Connecticut...
...another world. A 45-minute drive from Cape Town will place you amid European scenery, blue mountains, farm boundaries of fir and wattle, wide sheltered valleys and a climate that is virtually Mediterranean. The Paarl ("pearl" in Afrikaans) region, largest of the country's vineyard areas, is at the southern-hemisphere latitude equivalent of Spain's renowned Sherry region. Visitors to Constantia, Paarl and Stellenbosch have no difficulty recalling parts of France, Italy, Bavaria, Switzerland and even California's Napa Valley...
...Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia), The Newton Boys robs money not just from banks, but from moviegoers. Set in the bootlegging world of the 1920s, the Newton Boys (Matthew McConaughey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke and Skeet Ulrich) are America's most successful bank robbers, and are portrayed as sweet, Southern-drawling teenage heartthrobs. Making a mockery out of the real event, this film persuades moviegoers to fall in love with all those chiseled faces and to forget the fact that their success was made in robbery. The overly-cheesy music and the slow-moving plot also make this film seriously...
...prattling naivete as subtly disturbing as a toddler playing with a loaded handgun, Harlan gabs about everything from slavery to the aesthetic of rock-star fashion with the same maddening equanimity, made worse by her mingling of each topic's catch-phrases with the provincialism of her exaggerated Southern accent...
...power last night, and at least 500 buildings were seriously damaged. The tornadoes were the second wave of killer storms in eight days to move through the South, during a storm season that has killed more than 100 people since February. The storm system heads across the Southeast and southern New England today...