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Spoilers is renowned for its long, concluding brawl between villain and hero. The current version (Wayne v. Scott) is a beaut. It begins in Cherry's overstuffed quarters on the saloon's second floor, ranges round the balcony, down to the barroom, smashing everything in sight, continues out through the front window into the street. When it is finally over, Sourdough Harry Carey pulls the hero together and chides: "That's enough now; come...
...always get, all too often get routine stuff they don't want. But in Virginia the Richmond Defense Service Unit of OCD has lately struck gold in an abandoned mine. Again & again at Camp Lee and Fort Eustis, that venerable grog-flogger. Ten Nights in a Barroom, has left the boys looping...
...amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...
...sincerity, of which Sinclair has plenty. The '20s were a crazy, tragicomic incubator of a catastrophic future. Sinclair makes that, and the grim lines which sharpen their terrible convergence a few years later, perfectly clear. He also makes his whole 859-page canvas as shamelessly ingratiating as a barroom nude...
Today he is more nearly extinct than the bison. Great horns still spring above barroom mirrors; a proud, sad specimen stands stuffed at the Fort Worth airport; Texans still like to call themselves "Longhorns," or "Texas Steers." But until last week the Longhorn was without much honor, or the lore that might bring it to him, save in his own country...