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...gives hints of money wrangles and byzantine plot twists, but The Yellow Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss
...simple solution is a longer extension that would carry into late fall when almost all colleges are in session. This would give financial and officials an opportunity to corral recipients when they register in the fall and facilitate a smooth implementation of the Solomon Amendment...
Connors worries about tennis authorities being too inhibiting to the free-spirited. "Don't corral the guy," he pleads, meaning McEnroe. "If you cut down [Ilie] Nastase, if you cut down McEnroe"-if you cut down Connors-"you are cutting down the most entertaining personalities in tennis. It's got so that every time you do something, you're fined, you're suspended. It's tough to breathe. I can't take the weight on my back." Since Connors is frequently described as having matured at 30, it is surprising to hear that...
...list is very confusing," admits Octavio Muñoz Corral, president of the Juárez Chamber of Commerce, who is futilely struggling to persuade Americans to keep buying below the border. Indeed, the uncertainty has been the main factor keeping Americans from shopping for much of anything in Mexico. "The tourists are scared away," says Salesman Manuel Vasquez, surveying his empty marble-products shop in Juárez, which logically should be packed with Texans seeking more for their dollar. "Our business is off about 50%. Capitalism works. This type of stupid socialism doesn...
...word around the corral is that with his new novel, Nobody's Angel, Thomas McGuane rode into town, swung open the doors of the saloon and single-handed transformed the saddleworn clichés of Western fiction. The irony is that McGuane's fifth novel is his first set in the West. The Sporting Club, his debut, occurs up in Michigan, Hemingway country, while his best novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, takes place in Key West (again Hemingway turf), where McGuane lived and worked. Although McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined...