Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Dexter...
...Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin, "on account...
...makeshift court worked swiftly in Deadwood, presumably so that judge and jury could get back to gambling, drinking and whoring, the town's principal activities. Standing the myth of the American West on its head is % not a new trick. But this time out, Dexter performs it with unusual skill, grace and glee, particularly in his presentation of Calamity Jane. No act of violence or natural appetite passes without a graphic description. This is Blazing Saddles for grownups...
...President of the Confederacy in 1861. George Wallace stood on the same spot 100 years later, took his first oath as Governor and promised, "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! And segregation forever!" From where Wallace stood, one can look across the way and see Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the civil rights headquarters in the days of the bus boycott that began the long American journey...
Except for Benetton, which is not a factory store, regular prices can be as much as 40 percent below the standard retail price. Women's boots at Dexter Shoes were selling for 50 percent off, and a pair of standard penny loafers, which normally go for $79, were on sale for $54.99 because there were nicks so small that the cashier had to show them to one curious shopper...