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...official Whammo Hacky Sack is made of plastic beads coated with animal hide. "If you don't eat meat, it's hard to justify playing Hacky Sack says Lerdow. "That's the only trouble--thinking about all the dead animals the went into...
When the Crimson falls to Yale's Bulldogs, the restaurant's portrait of a naked "Madame Yvonne" is draped in black as if to hide her shame from the guests...
...test of strength in new elections, especially over foreign policy issues as delicate as Italy's relations with the Middle East and its traditional links to the U.S. The Prime Minister emerged, if anything, stronger from the ordeal. Looking tired after two weeks of nonstop finagling, Craxi could not hide a note of triumph over his renewed mandate. Said he: "I always believed that this crisis could be rapidly overcome, since I never believed that the reasons behind it were sufficient to cause a rupture in the collaboration of the governing parties...
...reason readers won't get a feel for the real Texas is that Michener picked an epic story to tell the state's tale. The characters and the romantic story line hide more about Texas than they reveal. They show the legend and myth, a surprising amount of which is true, but they obscure the more subtle, underlying truths about the history of Texas and Texans...
...these features hide the equally Texan and equally historically important characteristics which lie below the bluster and Hollywood romance that make this novel entertaining. Texans were the violent Comanche and Mexican killers that Michener made his out to be. But most of the time (in between the occassional Indian raids, Mexican Wars, American Wars, and lynchings) Texans were tackling the element that formed them--the vast, wealthy space called Texas. The land theme, however, lacks entertainment value--aneedotes about rugged Texans replacing fence posts does not make good novel material. So Michener sacrifices real education on his subject for stereotyped...