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...boycotted the Comedy Store in a labor dispute. Letterman, who by this time was guest-hosting the Tonight Show, kept performing there because he needed to try out material. Miller showed up one night to watch his friend, but the club's owner called the police and had him thrown out. "After Dave heard what had happened, he never worked another show there," says Miller. "That was quite a sacrifice...
...Capital Source lists more than 2,000 law firms, public relations agencies, think tanks, periodicals and interest groups, all of whose employees feed off the power, prestige and federal subsidies thrown off by one president and 535 members of Congress. None of the birds has much actual influence over its prey, and anyone who says anything substantive risks giving offense. Giving offense is a disadvantage to those who read the carrion second...
...interview last month, Lee said many of the accounting books for the event have been thrown away or are likely lost and unrecoverable. He said Sword kept a milk carton full of receipts that Lee believes are now missing...
...peanuts to the town market in San Cristobal de las Casas were in danger of having their wares snatched away by non-Indian women, or "Black Widows." And though the town's economy depended on trade with the Indians, Maya found walking the streets at night would be thrown into jail and fined...
McMurtry, a valuable, observant writer in his other fiction, is a couple of sizes better than that here. A muzzy golden haze -- perhaps just sunset through the dust thrown up by the hooves of horses and cattle -- surrounds the two books. This is not just legend mongering, although the author mongers better than most. The second novel is the lesser; no more, really, than a respectful conclusion. But in Streets of Laredo, as in Lonesome Dove, McMurtry plays fair. Evil is evil, death is death. Gone is gone. And though it is far more frightening, he manages to look...