Word: doves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intimacy of the Loeb Ex space makes for colored girls attractive and successful. The production retains the closeness of a poetry reading but contains the power of an Ibsen tragedy. The quality of this production gives hope for a similar production of other poetry-cycles such as Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah. With Matthews fine production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf as precedent, it would be a pity if nothing else was attempted in the same vein...
...senator quickly dove into his controversial plan for tax reform. He proposed completely eliminating the income and capital gains taxes...
Instead the Rangers are overwhelmed by Mexican soldiers, and the survivors reach Santa Fe in chains after an agonizing mountain trek. The novel's plan is not much different, in fact, from that of Lonesome Dove or Streets of Laredo: an incredibly difficult journey that no prudent soul would have undertaken, with a psychopathic Comanche (Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Hump here) skulking in the shadows to pick off stragglers...
McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...
Which sets the reader to musing: by rough calculation, there are about three decades of imprudence and dusty commotion to get through before they become the leathery, intermittently shrewd men of Lonesome Dove. The prequel hasn't really completed its job. Obviously a postprequel or two is required before the central novel can decently begin. Buffalo Hump still lurks. McCrae seems about to marry, though surely not if the sly heartbreaker in the general store is thinking clearly. And the great-grandlitters of pigs not yet born and rattlers not yet hatched must colonize the town of Lonesome Dove...