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...existential blahs. He was a high school football hero of sorts in McMurtry's wry 1966 novel The Last Picture Show. Since then he has made a fair-size bundle in the oil business, but aerobic spending and the collapse of crude prices have left him ear-deep in debt, and sinking. He doesn't much care. He and his wife Karla are both good-looking and healthy in their 40s, but he isn't aroused by her, even to sexual antagonism. Their recent marital enterprise has been what economists call, approvingly, consumer activity: building a mansion that Duane hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After The Last Picture Show TEXASVILLE | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Snowball: David, Lynch, Blue Velvet. Yeah. Maybe a severed human ear will host the ceremonies...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: And the Envelope, Please | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...Freshmen would be eating their cream of broccoli soup, and a wildebeast's ear would drop in. It was an unpleasant situation," Gannon said...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...Reagans' 35th wedding anniversary, the President said, as he often does when people ask him his age, "My life began 35 years ago." And only Nancy could promise former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, as she once did, that she would whisper "peace" in Ronald Reagan's ear each night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week of the Dragon | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...WENT I watched bayou swamp rats quaffing Old Milwaukee and muttering: "It jus' don' get no better than this." I viewed a troop of husky Canadians crooning: "I'll be a Moosehead man for life." Muzak voices whispered seductively in my ear: "Let It Be Lowenbrau." Ice-capped peaks and wild phallic stallions advised me to: "Head for the mountains." I was becoming dizzy. I had to get off this whirling dervish of archetypal images and subliminal cuts...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Liquid Assets | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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