His freshman classmates at Moscow State University may have sneered at the
country bumpkin who wore on his lapel the coveted "Order of the Red Banner of Labor" he earned in five summers of helping his father run a mammoth combine harvester, but Gorbachev also knew, better than they, that Stalin's collectivization had left the countryside a disaster.
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Daniel Thielmann 's boyish Leporello and Emma Johnson's engaging Zerlina offered a glimpse of the promising careers that await them, while Brenden Friesen's strong stage presence and vocal edge portrayed a Masetto who was more Don G-in-training than
country bumpkin. Tenor Jean-Michel Richers tentative Ottavio fit the dramatic profile of the less-than-adequate, would-be hero; and Garry Gable's Commendatore added a welcome, vocally-rich maturity to the mix.
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Pump some iron as Sweddy Bear, save the world as Toilet Paper Man, spread the love as Cupid and just have fun being a
Country Bumpkin, The Jumping Dead Zombie, Creepy Clown, Zeus, the Grim Reaper, and Spring Chicken, just to name a few.
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Jamie Castle, who works at barbershop City Clipping, described himself as a "
country bumpkin" who arrived in Cardiff from Ceredigion having never given anyone a hot towel shave.
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Judges described her as a
country bumpkin when she blew the audience away with her rendition of Queen's Somebody To Love.
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For whereas Freeman's voice had a kind of
country bumpkin twang, Simm (who is playing a former Los Angeles cop) isn't having to overegg things.
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Helmer Tosh Gitonga's first feature seldom surprises with its familiar tale of a
country bumpkin sucked into criminal doings while trying to make it in the big city, but it also avoids cheap melodrama or sentimentality.
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He is directed to a scruffy looking
country bumpkin. The marksman offers the bumpkin a substantial amount of money if he can tell him how he became such a good shot.
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Except cretinous
country bumpkin Laura who clashes with her fellow females and sobs: "Girls never like me."
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Bholu is a
country bumpkin who eats dal- roti , wears ordinary clothes and speaks in Hindi and rural dialects.
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The story is still one of a contented mouse, enjoying life in the country and the natural pattern of the seasons, until a fine, sleek cousin comes to stay, disdainful of his
country bumpkin cousin's life.
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Christopher (California State U.-Channel Islands) recounts her experience as an egg-head in a working-class family and town, an unprepared
country bumpkin at an elite college, a restless worker, a raging working-class militant in graduate school, and an intellectual snob professor to mainly working-class students at a regional university.
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Gwilym said: "I had the impression he thought I was a Welsh
country bumpkin who was there just to take up his time.
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She includes several amusing yet trivial anecdotes of how as a student at the University in Leipzig Goethe transformed himself from Franconian
country bumpkin to fashionista fop with the accompanying mannerisms.
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