Word: williner
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...more precisely, by the sultry, skirt-hiking image of Silvana Mangano, who made the movie an international hit. "Lorna" had closer affinities to "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre," Erskine Caldwell's novels of the dirt-poor, lubricious South, where the men are mean and the women are willin', where everyone quotes the Bible and nobody follows its Commandments. There isn't much skin in the movie, just a midnight bath in the old crick, but what's there is cherce; for Meyer's leading lady, Barbara Joy (whom he rechristened Lorna Maitland, after her character), possessed a pretty...
...Hank, conjures up his father's ghost in a more straightforward fashion. He recorded some of his new album in the real Almeria Club, a bar in Troy, Ala., where his old man is said to have once performed, and one of his songs, If the Good Lord's Willin' (and the Creeks Don't Rise), is adapted from his dad's old lyric sheets. The way Hank Jr. tries to generate excitement is also foursquare--he relies more on blazing guitar riffs than ingenious melodies. There's more bombast on 30 sec. of Almeria Club's final track, America...
...resist satire by caricature. No one could be as loopy as his Greek grandmother Ya-Ya. Surely no one's father was ever ruled by such morbid paranoia. Do children of eight and 10 really get hold of a smutty book and then walk around chirping "tight willin' gasshole...
...willin' for any solution--religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part. I don't know what it will take out there --500 casualties maybe, maybe 500,000. It's the aughts that scare...
...know is that when this thing is over we're either gonna be real happy or real sad. If we draw between 15,000 and 20,000 for both days together I think we'll break even and Lord willin' and the creak don't rise we'll have the tournament here next year,"--Dan McNamera, Executive Vice-President of the Orange Bowl Committee...