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...mean love crackers? Sometimes known as freakoid crackers? Sure I know what you're talkin about...
...really did a job. He wiped out 80 per cent of the A.D. Club, not that this is important to anyone, but it is worth mentioning as a sign of the times. If Nader had been there, we could have been talkin' a legitimate class action suit against Sunderland. The Mamed Section 19 Nine vs. Bobby "The Rabid Malcontent Terrier" Sunderland...
...guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying the bantering aren't so kind. As a Confederate compatriot of mine remarked during our freshmen week, "As soon as I started talkin' I felt funny. It was at the Union and every guy at the table started to stare at me. I wanted to talk to them, but they just wanted me to talk. They thought it was cute...
Sweet Smell. A schoolmate recollects: "At eight or nine, when most boys were talkin' fishin', huntin' and playin' hooky, Howard Henry was talkin' jurisprudence and double jeopardy." He graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949, then joined the law firm founded by his paternal grandfather in 1885. Young Baker quickly earned a reputation as a shrewd cross-examiner in courtroom exchanges. His natural proclivities for politics were cemented by his marriage to Joy Dirksen, only child of the late, grandiloquent Senator from Illinois...
KAEL IS ALL for the underdog. At times she seems to hunger for that ole simple straight talkin' soul, that sensibility set aside for off hours and cherished on visits to rural small towns--the one she hopes movies won't estrange us from more than urban living already has. I think that this nostalgia sometimes gets in her way, confused her sense signals. When she calls the gangling, gifted loser Pookie Adams (of A Sterile Cuckoo) "a resonant American archetype," I get the feeling that she has gone overboard on her identification. Or perhaps it is just that hitting...