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...Seven-O Ranch and settled in or near Seminole. They live in small frame houses or trailers scattered about town. Mennonite schools have sprung up. While the women in their traditional loose-fitting dresses do the baking and sewing chores, most of the men, who have taken to cowboy boots and hats, labor as welders, mechanics and carpenters. "They are the hardest working people I've ever seen," says one Seminole resident. "I thought those kind of people had disappeared...
IDIGRESS: the novel. Peter Gent, a former Dallas Cowboys flankerback in the days of Don Meredith, is also the author of the steaming, apocalyptic, and very good North Dallas Forty, the best novel ever written about pro football, not as limited a field as you might imagine. Texas celebrity Turkey Trot, which was excerpted last small in Sports Illustrated, and will be called by many another pro football novel, is not quite as good, I am sad to report. Readers of the sports pages will want to pick out who its characters are based on. Since Gent's autobiographical hero...
Some of the protagonist's prey fare better. Though at times hobbled by accent difficulties, British Actor Peter Firth (Equus) is surprisingly convincing as the title character, a sullen, ducktailed counterboy with vague cowboy dreams of glory. TV's Hal Linden, playing Grant's stuffy suburban husband, makes some thing fresh out of a stereotype, as does Faracy. Unfortunately, these performers must share the screen with Grant and Candy Clark, who turn already hysterical women into harridans. "Filth! Filth!" Grant screams at Gortner, in one of the movie's many unwatchable moments...
...back with their shotguns, lay down a cloud of tear gas. Attackers, surging against the locked gate like a human battering ram, burst into the compound. Others scaled the embassy's 12-ft. brick walls. From their posts, the Marines appealed over walkie-talkies to Sullivan (code-named "Cowboy") for permission to use their shotguns. His instructions: "If you need to protect yourselves, you may fire. If you can arrange to surrender...
...turned out they put them on two legs at a time, leaping high and accomplishing the maneuver in midair. The networks sold all available time to the underarm and antifreeze boys and predicted the biggest TV audience in history. Brezhnev said let Teng put that in his cowboy hat. Learned scholars and Richard Nixon pointed out how football was a game that symbolized the essence of the American character. The Americans practiced in a veritable frenzy of patriotism. Terry Bradshaw strengthened his passing hand by squeezing the milk out of coconut shells. "No more Mr. Nice Guy," vowed Mean...