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...defendants who have been charged with floating more than $500 million in bogus loans for a partly completed condominium development ten miles northeast of Dallas, alongside Interstate 30. One prominent S and L owner named in the case was Welba Lee Keetch, 52, a 300-lb. Texan known as Bubba. Authorities say Keetch and two colleagues kept $12.9 million from loans made by First Savings and Loan Association of Burkburnett, which Keetch controlled...
...most probusiness, prodefense Southerners around, he got it. "It makes our problems much more difficult," says Republican John Connally, a former Texas Governor. Bentsen helps shield Dukakis from the liberal label Bush is trying to pin on him and makes the ticket more appealing to the Bubba vote: conservative whites who defected to Ronald Reagan...
...ways of Washington, but its political satire is toothless and its performers charmless. In 1st & Ten, the curvaceous team owner (Delta Burke) talks football as if she were reading a foreign language phonetically, and the gridiron goons who surround her (a womanizing quarterback, a dumb lineman named Bubba, an oily general manager in cahoots with the Mob) are well past sitcom retirement age. The bottom drawer in comedy's bargain basement, however, belongs to the new sitcoms showing up on basic cable. WTBS's Rocky Road, for example, set in a beachfront ice cream store, trots out juvenile plots...
...steelworker who now spends his days slumped in front of the soaps, the spectacle of relatively rich athletes (the average football player nets about $50,000 per season) struggling for more loot is unbearable. Someone who daily encounters hazardous situations can't empathize with a player who claims a Bubba Baker collision could end his career...
...farm-grown talent had produced nothing but mediocrity since 1973, but the likes of Alan Trammel, Lou Whitaker, Steve Kemp, Jack Morris and Lance Parrish thrust Detroit's love team near the playoffs. The Lions--guided by the poise of Billy "Silver Streak" Sims, Eric Hipple, Doug English, Al "Bubba" Baker and Freddie Scott--appeared to reach a similar plateau...