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...idea of what a football player's dream home is like in New York, however, and it even has a pinball machine. No shotguns, but a lot of what look like Magritte prints on the walls. Kristofferson is not a worldly-wise country boy but a tuned-out meditation freak. There might be a few people down there somewhere who meditate--Tom Landry maybe, but he's in Dallas, where he coexists with Dealy Plaza, the largest airport, and the largest Baptist church in the world. Dallas is a sick town...
...feminists may prove equally unable to go back," he noted. He envied the women conventioneers - of whatever political persuasion - their stamina. "They do much better on less sleep and liquor than their male counterparts." And he was surprised to find that Gloria Steinem was "a self-confessed junk-food freak. When I interviewed her over dinner, her meal consisted entirely of a cup of coffee and a gargantuan strawberry sundae...
...specimen than Neanderthal. Teeth, a nearly complete skullcap and bone fragments discovered in a cave at Choukoutien, China, during the 1920s established the existence of yet another early ancester, Peking man.* These discoveries helped to convince the remaining skeptics that the earlier finds were not the remains of a freak ape or a deformed human. The ancient, erect-walking creatures had apparently been plentiful and widely distributed; it now seemed indisputable that modern man had evolved from more primitive ancestors. But still not even those who acknowledged his age had any clear notion of man's antiquity. Even the evolutionists...
...Herr blends these pieces with meditations on Viet Nam that began in earnest when his look at the shooting was over. For Herr came to realize that Viet Nam was the most intense experience life was ever likely to offer him. Hating the idea of becoming a combat freak, a reporter who needed a war somewhere in order to function, he also recognized the pain that he and fellow correspondents felt when their tours were up: "A few extreme cases felt that the experience there had been a glorious one, while most of us felt that it had been merely...
...weights the church. It is also a place where, as Spellacy reminds us, new money and social pretensions cannot disguise the old-country "harps." On the fringes is an assortment of pimps, prostitutes, pornographers and eccentrics who seem cast from what the author has elsewhere referred to as the "freak-death pages" of the daily papers. They are a small army that threatens to trip on its tangled plot lines. Yet Dunne manages to get them through with wit, vitality, affection and that uncommon commodity, good writing. -R.Z.S...