Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe those shameless, down-and-dirty football novels, Semi-Tough and Life Its Own Self, worked as well as they did because author Dan Jenkins did not take novelizing very seriously and was rowdily irreverent about Texas and football. Fast Copy, Jenkins' latest, is longer, straighter, less rowdy and not quite so much fun. The background is 1930s journalism, including the early days of TIME and big- and small-time newspapering in Texas and elsewhere. Jenkins, too much in love with his subject, throws in every good story he knows about gangsters, FBI men, reporters, editors, oil wildcatters and similar...
...Anglos no longer have to accommodate Spanish speakers on their they can legally force them to deal in English. Banks, stores, post offices, buses, doctors' offices, and any other facet of daily life can easily exclude many who are equally deserving of their services. This is hardly an exaggeration, considering the leverage the state legislatures have in implementing the new policy and the tendency for these bodies to reflect the whims of the electorate...
...Anglos no longer have to accommodate Spanish speakers on their they can legally force them to deal in English. Banks, stores, post offices, buses, doctors' offices, and any other facet of daily life can easily exclude many who are equally deserving of their services. This is hardly an exaggeration, considering the leverage the state legislatures have in implementing the new policy and the tendency for these bodies to reflect the whims of the electorate...
...happened to TV since Pug and his clan last faded from the screen. Network audiences have dropped precipitately, and mini-series can no longer count on big audiences. What's more, the rising cost of these productions -- and the fact that they usually do badly in reruns -- have made them poor investments. The networks, as a result, have largely abandoned them in favor of more modest four-and six-hour dramas. War and Remembrance is an anachronism even before it airs. "It's hard to say 'never,' " says ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard, "but it's very unlikely...
...executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...