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Like Beavis & Butt-head, King of the Hill is a manifestation of Judge's longtime obsession with an America of tract homes and monster truck shows, Dairy Queens and Wal-Marts. "Mike has surrounded himself in Texas with great raconteurs," notes Sam Johnson, a former Beavis writer who is now executive story editor on NBC's NewsRadio. "They regale him with tales of misfit friends and trailer-park relatives. Mike is repelled by this world and also incredibly attracted...
...mannered, too-clever fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...
...former Army Chief Ahmad Shah Massoud, are holed up 31 miles north of Kabul in the isolated Panjshir Valley, and have blown up the road leading in. Rabbani is rumored to have fled to Iran. Even more intractable was General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a warlord who controls a large tract of territory on the northeastern border...
...heroes had probably preserved two redwood groves in Humboldt County, one of them the celebrated 3,000-acre Headwaters tract, a spectacular forest of towering, ancient redwoods--the largest still in private hands. And they knew for certain that they had sacrificed four smaller groves, rich with endangered wildlife. Activists at Owl Creek, one of the doomed groves, climbed the big trees and spread banners: DON'T RAPE THE REDWOODS...
...Republican president in the first year of the twentieth century, the issue was trusts. For Bob Dole, who hopes to be the Republican president in the last year of the twentieth century, the issue is trust. It is no accident that his soon to be best-selling campaign tract is entitled "Trusting the People." Dole wastes no opportunity in using the word "trust" because of its value in reminding people of their lack of this feeling for Bill Clinton...