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TITLE: BABY INSANE AND THE BUDDHA...
Baby Insane earned his name. He dodged automatic weapons fire successfully, against considerable odds, but his repeated collisions with the law eventually forced him to choose between doing heavy prison time and turning informer. A shrewd detective named Patrick Birse -- called Buddha because he looked like one -- persuaded him to turn. The author's tough, believable account of their edgily trustful relationship offers no solutions at all to the gang problem facing most of the nation's cities. But it does suggest why a restless man might become a detective, and why a bright, rootless boy might take shelter with...
...look! there's the Buddha!" She was right, in a sense. Amid the dead and dying leaves by the roadside, a portly mini-Enlightened One, clad in sheets and made of stone, sat on a rock. But, then again, she could have been referring to the rock, or the leaves, or the ground. They're all the Buddha. At least that's what one weekend in a Zen Buddhist monastery taught...
Lamb leads an ascetic life-style, sharing a townhouse in Arlington, Virginia, with his girlfriend Holly Hassett, a lobbyist for Hershey Foods. He's in bed by 9:30 and rises around 4:45 a.m. to begin plowing through the nine newspapers he reads every day. His Buddha-like serenity gives way to anger only when he speaks of the "television tyranny" of East Coast elites. Lamb decided when he first came to Washington that he didn't want someone like Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley shaping information...
...Eastern one," I said slowly, the smiling computer Buddha floating through my mind. "The one with the Buddha...