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Larry McMurtry's splendid horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
...this joint memoir by Mary Matalin and James Carville is racing on overdrive: a love story for the ages set against the drama of the 1992 campaign. But if romance is your primary reason for reading All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (Random House and Simon & Schuster; 493 pages; $24), you are doomed to feel like a disgruntled voter fooled again at the ballot...
...first time, everyone in the English department will have an office," says Professor of Germanic Philology Eckehard Simon, a member of the humanities quad planning committee...
...saga began in August 1993, when Adrian Guthrie and Simon Roberts, both 17, and raised in Klawock, ordered a pizza in Everett, Washington. When Domino's Pizza deliveryman Timothy Whittlesey showed up, Guthrie distracted him and Roberts hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat, leaving him, his assailant now admits, "kinda in convulsions." A bystander saw the teens removing Whittlesey's beeper, $40 and the pizza. The two Tlingits pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer was expected to assign prison terms of up to 5 1/2 years...
Hoffman shows the immense amount of talent we would later see come to full bloom during '60;s classics like "Midnight Cowboy." This is a must-see for young viewers who are approaching the "adult" world after college. And any of fans of Simon and Garfunkel should not miss the their then-young music which makes up the soundtrack...