Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giant is undeniably a good bit like Texas. Although the lavish spending is not what the movie would lead you Easterners to believe, Giant's rendition is not entirely unjustified. Similarly its typical characters run according to the authentic mold--Texan males are much like Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson, strong and strongly ruled by Hoyle; their women, as in the movie, are in at least a 5-1 ratio of the vacant-minded to the thinking. The people do herd and smile and "honey-chile," even though not as obviously as in Giant. But after all, these characteristics...
Edna Ferber's Giant is a long book which describes a big state. The book is a none too favorable commentary on Texan materialism as expressed in conspicuous consumption and bigotry towards the Mexican population. The film, after pruning some of Ferber's more barbed comments, more or less follows the author's point of view and takes on the solemn tones of social criticism...
...Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history. As one rhapsodic Texan put it: "A shining strand linking together the jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gull...
...safe from preying U-boats in the Gulf. But the Waterway has really proved its value in peacetime. At least 500 companies (among them: Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, Dow Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars...
Just about the only competitor who stayefl out of the argument was Texan Williim T. Waggoner, representing the Seattle Yacht Club. When the last heat started, he thought he had the race in the bag. His Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool...