Word: matilda
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...question about it, Larry McMurtry's shaggy new novel Dead Man's Walk (Simon & Schuster; 477 pages; $26) passes the all-important "Call me Ishmael" test. Its first line is "Matilda Jane Roberts was naked as the air." After that start, the narration wafts aloft into further elegant absurdity, as follows: "Known throughout south Texas as the Great Western, she came walking up from the muddy Rio Grande holding a big snapping turtle by the tail. Matilda was almost as large as the skinny little Mexican mustang Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call were trying to saddle-break...
Recently Cuomo received an endorsement from former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, which may mobilize black voters, a vital Cuomo constituency. In fact, Cuomo's wife Matilda has rather intemperately warned of "race riots" should he lose. Meanwhile, Cuomo has also profited from current Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's reluctance to endorse his fellow Republican; Giuliani apparently fears that the big tax cut may come at his city's expense...
Honored at the convocation were Ginsburg,President of the Spencer Foundation Patricia A.Graham, social scientist Matilda W. Riley '31,archaeologist and ethnologist Doris Z. Stone '30,and Niara Sudarkasa, the president of LincolnUniversity...
...since, he has returned to see how his young charges are faring. This time, in 35 UP, they are mostly a dour lot, soldiering edgily on, recounting their promotions and sackings, their new children and divorces. The trio of public school twits, who in the first film sang Waltzing Matilda in Latin, have mellowed into responsible burghers. Poor Neil, the brilliant child and (last time) the homeless neurotic, has settled in Shetland, Scotland, frail but still alive. That is almost the best to be said for the entire group, and they seem to know it; they speak apologetically...
...felt.' Kerrey looked at me helplessly but I just stared at the floor. He told the class he couldn't tell them -- he would have to do something he usually does only in the shower -- sing." Then Kerrey in a steady baritone talked/sang And the Band Played "Waltzing Matilda," the mournful lament of a World War I Australian who lost a leg in battle. The lyrics include the gut-wrenching line "Never knew there were worse things than dying." Says Capps: "When he turned and limped off the stage, nearly everyone wept...