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What was said? No one except the two participants knows exactly, but the specifics are less important than the basic right...
...rival GOP campaigns dismissing his candidacy, but it may be too early to count him out. West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante notes that, given the $14 million it takes to run in the early round of caucuses and primaries starting with Iowa and New Hampshire, every candidate except Bob Dole will be forced to skip at least one. "You can put a price tag on Wilson's decision: $1.1 million. That's what it would cost to launch an effective grassroots campaign in Iowa, and Wilson is better off putting the money in primary states that rely heavily...
Michaels, meanwhile, has spent the summer overseeing SNL's most sweeping overhaul in a decade. After conducting nationwide auditions, he has hired five new cast members, most of them unknowns. Such stalwarts as Chris Farley and Adam Sandler will be gone. Except for a couple of lower-profile players (Mark McKinney and Molly Shannon), the only major returnees are Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald and David Spade, who will have his own regular commentary spot...
...really be true, after all, that Lonesome Dove, published in 1985, is the finest American novel since, let's say, The Naked and the Dead and Catch-22. Yet that's the contrary view here. McMurtry is a good, busy, workmanlike novelist, but except for that single volume, not a great one. An earlier novel, The Last Picture Show, caught scraps of magic with its misty recollection of long-gone boyhood. Terms of Endearment worked well and deserved its success. Some of the author's other modern-day fiction (Texasville; Evening Star) has been merely expert and forgettable...
...were not a prequel, it would be worth only glancing notice. As things are, it is a satisfactory foothill, with the grand old mountain in view. There are no heroics, though there is plenty of calamity. Call and McCrae, too young and foolish to know better, short on everything except energy and ignorance, have joined a ragtag outfit called the Rangers, less a military force than a band of hungry looters, commanded by a puffing, self-anointed general. This faker has heard about Santa Fe, then a Mexican settlement, but does not know where it is. Nor does anyone else...