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...modern wild West. However, unlike his literary predecessors who lovingly detailed the majesty of the Rockies or the solemn grandeur of the California sequoias, Eighner chooses a much different subject. Instead of landscapes and flora, he describes the nooks and crannies of the Texan welfare system and the urban beast known as Los Angeles. From the perspective of a homeless man wandering across the Arizona desert, Eighner gives an update on life in today's real frontier, the streets of America...
...Romans had only one Circus. Always better, American mass culture is a varied beast, moving from orgy to orgy, never fully satiated and always looking for another way to (inadvertently) sell Fords...
...stated that I had taught myself to plan "on my toes." While such a feat would greatly amuse my colleagues, who would attest to my flat-footed approach, I was actually talking about clamming. Having been a student of this resilient beast for several years, becoming conversant with his habits, movements and gregarious behavior, I cast my bull rake aside this summer and taught myself. I told your reporter, to clarn "with my toes...
...weeks ago, at a Las Vegas video convention, Jeffrey Katzenberg, chieftain of the Disney movie jungle, was joined onstage by an adult lion to tout The Lion King, the most successful film in the company's history. Suddenly the beast wrapped its paw around Katzenberg's thigh. The audience gasped, the trainer scrambled, and the wiry mogul wriggled free, raising his arms in victory...
Altman and Hanson will probably not be the last Whitewater sacrifices. Warns an Administration source: "The people who have fed the beast should not assume the beast is happy." Last week the New York Times reported that before being replaced, independent counsel Robert Fiske had widened his inquiries to include the finances of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign...