Word: geronimos
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...Geronimo suspect is arrested
...Called Free Fall, it is based on the unsolved 1971 skyjacking of a commercial airliner by "D.B. Cooper," who parachuted into oblivion-and popular legend-with $200,000 in ransom money. Reed offers an exciting and altogether plausible account of what might have happened after the skyjacker did his Geronimo. A movie made from the novel, entitled The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, opens next month...
Hannah has been writing this dazed and dazzling fiction from the depths of Alabama for over a decade now. His first book, Geronimo Rex, won the Faulkner Prize and immediately set Hannah up as a hot Southern Writer. This was followed by Nightwatchmen and then by the prizewinning collection of short stories, Airships. During this time, Hannah published a record number of stories in Esquire, where the native Mississippian confused the hell out of a lot of people with stories like "Dragged Fighting From His Tomb," the story of a homosexual Confederate Soldier who butchers his way into Pennsylvania, only...
Sometimes their allies are teenage gang lords who come on like Geronimo crossed with the Blues Brothers; sometimes their toughest adversaries are officers whose tensions threaten to explode in a one-man apocalypse. The show treats those on both sides of the law with respect for their crotchets and obsessions...
Parts of it seem influenced heavily by Berry Hannah--great chunks of the theme could have been lifted from the story "Return to Return" in Hannah's latest collection Airships. And Pomeroy's insistent belief that Jesse James is his spiritual guardian corresponds closely to the outlaw Indian Geronimo in Hannah's Geronimo Rex. But this is McGuane's own, and nobody, not even Hannah, deals better with the South of Holiday Inn Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then...