Word: alamos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descendant of Frontiersman Jim Bowie, who struck out swinging at the Alamo, Kuhn is not exactly a buckskin man or most people's idea of a romantic. Standing 6 ft. 5 in., he was never much of an athlete, a "lousy ballplayer" by his own reckoning, better suited for basketball but in love with baseball. As a calm, scholarly child in Washington, B.C., already too stiff to ask the Senators' players for autographs, Kuhn whiled away early 1940s summers manning the scoreboard for a dollar a day, just to have some part in the wondrous events at Griffith...
...lost their bearings and talked publicly as they talked privately. In 1966, speaking to G.I.s at Camp Stanley in Korea, Lyndon Johnson became so worked up that he reverted to the Texas storyteller he always was. He told the world that his great-great-grandfather had died at the Alamo. Pure fiction. Knowing a flap was coming, Aide George Christian tried delicately to brace L.B.J. for the outcry. "I never said that," pouted Johnson. Politely as he could, Christian told Johnson that he had heard him say it. "I don't care what you heard," snorted Johnson. "I didn...
...trait that probably did more to force him into retirement than anything else. Too bad that Johnson could not have brought himself instantly to the good-natured confessional he offered years later: "What I was trying to say was that my ancestor was in a fight at the Alamo-that is, the Alamo Hotel in Eagle Pass, Texas." But that was just the way L.B.J...
...White says Clements is "a clown" who uses "smear tactics." Clements says the attorney general "is an incompetent lawyer" who has lost most of his big cases. Responding, somewhat lamely, that he has won most of those that he appealed, White declares: "The heroes in Texas were at the Alamo and San Jacinto. You've got to fight." Facing Dollar Bill's well-oiled assault, state Democratic leaders are wondering if, like the Texans at the Alamo, White lacks the organization and resources...
...debate soon rises to rage. Less innocent than powerless, King finds his "book" for the show increasingly interrupted by caterwauling songs. His prostitutes, college boys and blue-mouthed sheriff-hero are transformed into sanitized cartoons. Disputes with collaborators become glacial standoffs or public snits. A fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...