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...California pretty,/ I can't survive the Great White Way," sings WAYLON JENNINGS in Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A., the title cut from his potent new album of barroom sermons. Yet the Last Outlaw of country music will get along somehow. His voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn...
...happen almost anywhere -- on moonlit beaches, in empty warehouses and in open fields -- thanks to an underground networking system < and mobile electric generators that use telephones, flyers and maps to get the word out with as little as 24 hours' notice. Like the hit-and-run "outlaw" parties that took place in Los Angeles and New York during the mid-'80s, raves are often illegal affairs that operate one step ahead of the authorities...
Will Munny (Eastwood) is a gunfighter trying to escape the lure of notoriety. He's certainly lost the hang of it after years in retirement. He can't shoot straight or stay on a horse. And he is eager to dispel anyone's illusions of outlaw grandeur. In his prime he killed women and children; hell, he "killed just about everything that walks and crawls." And was he ever scared? "I can't remember. I was drunk most of the time...
...plot against old local autonomy. When Winthrop Rockefeller gave $1.5 million to set up a model integrated school, on condition that local taxes take up the burden after five years, the school was allowed to close when its free run ended. Jeff Davis, after all, had tried to outlaw the education of Negroes, on the grounds that it ruined good field hands without creating intelligent citizens...
...decades of history. At issue is whether President Boris Yeltsin acted legally when he banned the party and seized its assets after last year's failed coup attempt. But the political stakes are higher. The trial will consider the high crimes and misdemeanors attributed to the party and perhaps outlaw, once and for all, the kind of totalitarian system it created...