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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...
...contrarians caution that the major players may have the wrong idea--that someone like Malone, by striking deals with everyone, is positioning himself better than is Michael Eisner, who for better or worse will now be tethered to ABC's network. "The risk is that some dumb deals will happen just because people are feeling they'd better buy something," says Tom Adams, a media analyst based in Carmel Valley, California. "It's almost a panic out there," agrees Derek Baine, an analyst with Paul Kagan Associates. "There's going to be a lot of dealing this year.'' But will...
...proceeds to survey America's problems and blame them on various people. If you're familiar with his formidable oeuvre of TV utterances--his book is kind of a Cliffs Notes version--you can guess the culprits. The "bureaucrats" have helped destroy the family, undermine the work ethic and dumb down education. Meanwhile, the liberal "elites" (in a "calculated effort") have helped "discredit this civilization," sapping faith in American values...
Maybe no one is the perfect person for a job that depends so much on dumb luck in guessing the public's whims. An idiot could succeed in such a position, a genius could fail, simply by picking or passing on a Star Wars or a Forrest Gump. It's also possible that Ovitz was unsuited for the position. As a talent agent, he is a seller in a seller's market; the studios want his clients and will pay hugely for them. As MCA czar, he would have been a buyer in that market. The fellow who helped jack...
Like Congress, students were reexamining thegovernment's relationship with Harvard. Studentsseriously questioned many long-standingconnections between Harvard and a government manyof them abhorred as "deaf, dumb and blind...