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...Thompson has put no limits on his own visibility. Outfitted in jeans, T shirt and cowboy boots, he frequently travels around the state with his wife Jayne, 31, pumping hands, slapping backs and exchanging small talk, of which he is a master. He claims that "being Governor is three jobs rolled into one." He occasionally finds time for his hobby of collecting Victorian antiques, but he has virtually given up racquetball, allowing his weight to slide up another 20 Ibs., to 220. To enhance his national image, he has hired Washington Political Consultants Douglas Bailey and John Deardourff...
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr The Last Cowboy, Jane Kramer Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, Franz Kafka
DIED. Tim McCoy, 86, real-life cowboy who became one of Hollywood's best-known western heroes (War Paint, Winners of the Wilderness, Ghost Town Law); in Nogales, Ariz. A rancher and amateur historian who knew the neighboring Indians well, McCoy was named Wyoming's Indian commissioner in 1920, after serving as a cavalry instructor and a colonel in the artillery in World War I. He helped hire 500 Indians for the film The Covered Wagon in 1922, then went to Hollywood and became the good-guy star of 200 or so films and numerous touring "Wild West...
...other folks besides. John F. Kennedy Jr., who neglected to drop his name, was turned away. Aspiring Starlet Sunny Leigh, who claims that club personnel kept her outside the inner sanctum "violently and with great force," is suing Studio 54 for a cool $13 million. Even Dallas Cowboy Defensive End Harvey Martin, the terror of the Super Bowl, was stopped at the door. Now that's selectivity. Or a death wish...
With an expanded, more competitive schedule, the result may be an even bigger letdown if the Super Bowl continues its recent form of understated, cautious football. Purists insist that fans cannot appreciate great defensive games like the 27-10 Cowboy victory; neither can they appreciate the fine line between mechanical proficiency and boredom, the main fare of recent Super Bowls. While this year's contest between Denver and Dallas had its moments of suspense, perhaps the most exciting event of the evening-and arguably the Super Bowl's premier athletic feat-was a 60-yd. bomb thrown...