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...then skipped town, and civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who was at the assassination), have been quiet on the ruling. Even conspiracy-lover Oliver Stone allowed his option on the film rights to the murder expire. Of course, a trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers' six-year-old claim to a TV reporter that he paid someone (not James Earl Ray) to kill King is a little suspect, especially since he didn't testify at his trial and may have simply been plugging a planned book on the assassination...
...Codi also finds herself busier than she expected. She meets Loyd Peregrina, half Pueblo, half Apache, whom she had dated briefly in high school; she never told him of the pregnancy and miscarriage that followed. Now she and Loyd fall into an affair that threatens to turn serious, not to say somber. He drives her about neighboring reservations and takes her to some ancient Pueblo villages. She begins to see a difference between inhabiting the land and trying to conquer it: "To people who think of themselves as God's houseguest, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid...
...Codi does have her preachy side, not that it seems to bother Loyd. After she lectures him, he agrees to get rid of his birds and give up cockfighting. There is enough fun in this novel, though, to balance its rather hectoring tone. Codi has a deft way of observing her small, remote hometown, caught uneasily between past and future. When Halloween arrives, she notes, "Grace was at an interesting sociological moment: the teenagers inhaled MTV and all wanted to look like convicted felons, but at the same time, nobody here was worried yet about razor blades in apples...
...superficial level Melnick's music is reminiscent of the Tim rice-Andrew Loyd Webber "Broad way Rock" that influenced shows like the "Rocky Horror Picture Show," but closer listening reveals the music's deeper roots in more sophisticated jazz styles, Melnick said "I wanted to avoid the ellcbe of quoting from Chinese music, but I wanted none of the tunes to be self-consciously commercial...
...Loyd Hackler, now president of the American Retail Federation, wryly recalled last week that when he was named an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, great efforts were made to obscure Hackler's own Texas background. L.B.J. was growing sensitive to the observations that Texas people, Texas clothes, Texas food and Texas language were inundating the capital, and so Hackler was listed as being from Oklahoma. It took U.P.I.'s wily White House correspondent, Merriman Smith, to penetrate the ruse by asking: "When did he move to Texas...