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ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely...
...referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove mini-series: a haggard Texan who loves horses and leads...
...months. Main text and official reason: she needs money to restore the part of Windsor Castle that was ruined in a fire last year. Subtext: p.r. to make up for the behavior of her offspring and their spouses -- Di the bulimic fairy princess, fat Fergie and her toe-sucking Texan "financial adviser," Charles' ambition to become Camilla Parker-Bowles' Tampax. Will a trot through the state rooms of Buckingham Palace raise our minds from these mundane affairs...
...aware of Perot's foibles -- wobbling on issues and overreacting to criticism -- but they like his anti-Washington message anyway. As a potential presidential candidate, Perot has actually pulled ahead of Clinton. In the survey, 46% said they would be very likely or somewhat likely to vote for the Texan; for the President, the figure...
...week or so before a little-known Texan named George Bush announced his candidacy for the presidency in 1979, political adviser David Keene telephoned a Washington speechwriter with a desperate plea for help. "We need an announcement statement," Keene explained to Vic Gold. "So what's the problem?" Gold asked. "The problem," answered Keene, "is that David Gergen has been working on it for months...