Word: texan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...busy--so dumb," writes Newspaperman and National % Public Radio Personality Gordon Baxter. He should know; he was one. But that was long ago, and in this peppery account of his relationship with new Daughter Jenny, born when Baxter was 54 and already a grandfather by his "first litter," the Texan turns the tables. Although a reluctant father- to-be ("Lamaze, LaLeche . . . LeHusband"), the good ole boy becomes a good, if old, dad. Baxter stays home to write in a woodsy cabin with his second wife Diane, nearly 20 years his junior, and he and Jenny share her strained veal ("unspeakable...
...fact that Testrake acted as the spokesman reflected the shift in attitude. On the plane from Wiesbaden, West Germany, Allyn Conwell, who had resigned as the group's spokesman, asked Testrake to replace him. A cool, articulate, square-jawed Texan, Conwell had alienated some by expressing "genuine sympathy" for the captors and equating the hostage taking with Israel's detention of hundreds of Shi'ites. Hill, for one, declared that Conwell had been "sucked in." Said an outraged Hill: "I asked him if he was going to carry the Koran and Islamic prayer beads with him to the White House...
...spokesman for the hostages seemed straight from central casting: a square-jawed, clear-eyed Texan named Allyn Conwell. An oil company executive based in Oman, Conwell was returning from a vacation in the U.S. Showing more aplomb in captivity than Cool Hand Luke, he calmly beseeched his captors and the U.S. alike to "put aside fear, anger and insult" and "let us go home...
SONGWRITER is not a movie to gauge on first look. It sneaks up on you--but in the way a drawling good ol' Texan boy sidles up to tell a juicy tall talc. The movie, while well-timed and drily witty, takes unpredictable, endearing turns just when you thought you had it pegged...
...family and its affection for the musicians and the on-the-road-again way of life. Songwriter gives a taste of Austin, spirited style and music, along with a playful, rambunctious storyline. It is an avant-garde film of seething social commentary, Songwriter offers an example of smooth-talking Texan optimism...