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Gingrich's Armey: A tough-talking Texan rises...
Richards was trailing challenger George W. Bush, son of the former president, by 4 points as of Thursday night, according to Texan N. Van Taylor...
Kubrick's vigilant camera follows the 843rd squadron into the air, where expatriate Texan "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) and his crew are shocked by their orders to deliver approximately 60 megatons of nuclear devices to sites in Russia within two hours. Over the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Slim's Texas drawl offers a few inspirational words to the crew: "I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong feelings about nuclear combat." The boys drop their new issue of Playboy, Slim replaces his flight helmet with a Stetson...
...recounts his own adventures in the modern wild West. However, unlike his literary predecessors who lovingly detailed the majesty of the Rockies or the solemn grandeur of the California sequoias, Eighner chooses a much different subject. Instead of landscapes and flora, he describes the nooks and crannies of the Texan welfare system and the urban beast known as Los Angeles. From the perspective of a homeless man wandering across the Arizona desert, Eighner gives an update on life in today's real frontier, the streets of America...
Alternating between objectivity and cynicism, Eighner explains the ludicrous inefficacy of the Texan social welfare system. He exposes the bureaucratic sinkhole of tax dollars and complete confusion caused by decentralization. His differing tones allow him to instruct the uninitiated, as well as to express personal disgust for an illogical system that has evidently forgotten its purpose...