Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attractive NYC woman." A female reader of New York might enjoy a chuckling little shudder at this: "I am here! A caring, knowing, daffy, real, tough, vulnerable and handsome brown-eyed psychoanalyst." One conjures up the patient on the couch and a Freudian in the shape of Daffy Duck shouting: "You're desPICable...
Ralph: Far from it, light of my life. She's my favorite sex munchkin. Who else would tackle the tough question of whether a devout Catholic like Bruce from Dubuque shows disrespect for his church by doing it dressed as a nun? These are the very issues they duck all the time on Face the Nation and Meet the Press...
...stakes for Reagan, as well as his party, are considerable. In the short term he needs a victory, or at least the prospect of one, to fend off any impression that he is becoming an impotent, lame-duck President. His second term has begun badly, and his Administration seems stalled. The major high- level shuffles last January, particularly the job switch between Chief of Staff Baker and Treasury Secretary Regan, wasted time that could have been spent exploiting Reagan's re-election momentum. Congress handcuffed the President on aid to the contras in Nicaragua, MX missile deployment and his defense...
...past. "The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom," said D.H. Lawrence. This includes Lorena, the local whore with the 14-karat ventricles, who joins the drive north because she has never lived any place cool. She also motivates much of the action when kidnaped by Blue Duck, an Indian whose specialty is killing settlers and selling their horses and children. Lonesome Dove has the highest mortality rate of any novel in recent memory. Characters are shot, stabbed, hanged, drowned, trampled, struck by snakes and lightning. "Gravediggers could make a fortune in these parts" is the sort...
...service to psychological conflict is lost to his outsize talent for descriptive narrative. Filmmakers should have no trouble finding visual thrills. The standard stream crossing is perked up by an attack of water moccasins; there is a choice between a dandy sandstorm and a typhoon of grasshoppers; Blue Duck is a menacing piece of work with his necklace of amputated fingers; a bear fights a bull to a draw; and a dead hero is packed in salt and carted more than a thousand ceremonious miles to his grave. There are also long, featureless stretches that add up to the reading...