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...march, a 300-mile pilgrimage to raise funds for a Texas Viet Nam veterans memorial, began in Dallas Oct. 19 and is to conclude on Veterans Day at the Alamo, in San Antonio, where the veterans will honor 161 Texas servicemen listed as missing in action. Westmoreland led the group along Interstate 35 just south of the small town of Pflugerville, then joined them the following day on the steps of the Texas capitol, in Austin, to accept a proclamation from Governor Mark White supporting the event. It was Westmoreland's second such march; in 1982 he led a procession...
...prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled by a strange device: Michener imagines a committee appointed by a Texas Governor to investigate the state's history. Every time...
...sketches: there's Bertha Bumiller, head of the local Smut-Snatching Society, in her green poly suit and orange bouffant wig; Petie Fiske, the woebegone rep from the Greater Tuna Humane Society and his homeless ducks; the toad-voiced chainsmoking Deedee Snavelly; the Rev. Spikes and his "remember the Alamo!" eulogies...
...search for the bike takes him all the way to the Alamo, in Texas (where a phony gypsy tells him he could find the two wheeler...
...international style -- episodic and oblique, offering no easy meanings or solutions -- came the latest surge of immigrant directors and cinematographers. Some, like Forman, Soviet Filmmaker Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky) and the Cuban-bred camera magician Nestor Almendros, were sidestepping new tyrannies. Some, like Louis Malle (Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Alamo Bay), sought a larger canvas on which to test their palettes. Many others were Australians and Englishmen attracted by the grand contradictions of a country with which they shared a language and part of a heritage. America was, of course, where the action was. Also the power and the glory...