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...thing, including plenty of discussion about how far is too far to go on a sultry Panhandle night. The coquette/tramp, played with appropriate feminine deviltry by Cybill Shepherd (who never looked so good -- just ask Bogdanovich, who did a May-December bit of his own with Cybill during the shoot and after). And of course the mantra, inserted early on by John Keats via John Hillerman: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." The grand jury knows. But they ain't talking...
...American households have guns, it is a signal that people have given up on beating violent crime through conventional means. But that does not justify making guns more easily available. Owning a hunting rifle, securely storing it in separate pieces well away from children and using it only to shoot a yearly quota of deer is quite different from carrying a loaded 9-mm pistol in a shoulder holster for the drive to work. Parents who introduce their children to guns may first want to take them down to the morgue and show them the bullet-riddled body...
...Dallas of Big Oil and Big Football and Big Everything, assassination included, is now the big bloody shoot-'em-up video-game production center of the world...
Fueled by stiff winds, the flames have jumped from treetop to treetop in a landscape made hospitable by a severe drought. Flames even shoot up through tree roots. Rotting vegetation sparks without warning, creating idiosyncratic wind patterns. Conflagrations then skip over bulldozed firebreaks and highways. "The fires make such rapid advances that it's not feasible to put men in there," says Steve Parsons of the Florida emergency-management agency. "We've got to get those long-term rains to get some moisture in the ground." Last week the Governor asked the state to pray for rain. The prayers...
...other boys also had experience with firearms. Carneal learned to shoot at summer camp and on a shooting trip with his neighbor's dad (from whom he stole the murder weapon). Woodham kept a map on his wall with the bilious slogan "One Nation Under...