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...Sprague is one of the most effective prosecutors in the nation. A short, intense man with sad, hound-dog eyes, he acts as the executive officer directly under the elected district attorney, Arlen Specter. Specter sets the guidelines and runs the politics. Sprague gets the convictions-from murder to petty bribery. "He is seething with righteous indignation," says one judge who has handled Sprague's cases. "Some men are like a tiger. Dick Sprague is like a whole cage full of tigers-leashed and caged, thank God. But you can feel the power that's there...
...conducted televised hearings and investigations on just about every topic remotely connected with insurance, from auto repairs to pension funds. "Our game plan is simple," he explains. "We just give the public the facts, and they're appalled. I'm accused of being a publicity hound, but my job is to get publicity, to communicate. Until insurance becomes a matter of breakfast-table conversation in this country, nothing will happen...
...usual the substance of the book is Frederick Buechner's amiable conviction that the hound of heaven is a wet spaniel, apt to shake himself at any moment and shower a man with faith and grace. What is also unsettling, in this successful sequel to Buechner's Lion Country, is the considerable attention but negligible weight that this gifted and amusing writer gives to earthly matters...
...eyes. A Republican sits in the White House again, and skirts are supposed to be below the knee. Most of all, Elvis Presley is back, gyrating his way, just as he did 15 years ago, through the primitive rock beat of "You ain't nothin' but a hound...
...that Bakshi slaps into his narrative. (A Ph.d. candidate will someday call Fritz 'picaresque'). Fritz's black-talking, muscle flexing crow friends are the natural men of his world, though Fritz himself is far from psychotically WASP-ish. All the traditional Americans--pig cops and hardhats and a hound dirt-farmer--are sweating ignoramuses so whacked-out by work that they can't ever get it together. Radical politicos and Hell's Angels join paws in the headiest mix since PCPJ; even Orthodox Jews are ribbed mercilessly in the film's funniest scene: a blasphemous chase through a Bowery synagogue...