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These folks here ain't got no sense...
...previous biographical novels, e.g., Lust for Life (Painter Van Gogh). The President's Lady (Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel), his latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises him with her apron...
...photograph. A small gold-cornered notebook made a fine souvenir for Greg, and, as an added prize, the President found a silver dollar for Lynda. "Oh, Momniie," she said, "I got a medal." As the Widerbergs were ushered out, Lynda held up the silver dollar, exclaimed to reporters, "Ain't I lucky...
...been, as he says, "bird-doggin'" for evidence to back up his charge of murder against Holland. As this week began he was still trying to uncover two important pieces of evidence: the murder gun and shoes that will match the plaster casts. "This scientific investigatin' ain't my dish of tea," he says, "but I got one big advantage. These people around here will talk to me." The sheriff is not as confident about the immediate future of Kanab...
...That's Cohn. He ain't no Kennedy. What a greasy looking...