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...have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin, "on account of his mortal grudge against Wild Bill, and self-defense...
Efforts to reduce the amount of plastic jettisoned into the oceans have been largely unsuccessful. Although the U.S. and 59 other nations agreed in 1972 to outlaw the dumping of durable plastics, among other substances, into the oceans, the treaty failed to address the discharge of ordinary garbage, which contains large quantities of plastic items. Ten states are trying to do their part; they have passed legislation requiring that six-pack yokes be made of treated plastic that degrades rapidly in sunlight. Nonetheless, concludes Zoologist Carr: "This junk is growing in abundance year by year. It is just getting outrageous...
...provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
...Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua--a "cancer that has to be excised" and "an outlaw regime" to Reagan--and the reactionary militarist regime of General Victoriano Huerta in Mexico--a "government of butchers" to Wilson--represented to both presidents, respectively, ideologies they spent their lives opposing...
Outwardly, The Endless Game (Random House; 309 pages; $17.95) is about a retired intelligence agent's lone, outlaw struggle to determine why someone murdered a prematurely senile woman who once was his colleague and lover. As in countless British espionage novels during the past few decades, the plot derives from the betrayal of Britain by Master Spy Kim Philby and his fellow moles for the Soviets. What distinguishes Forbes' book is his poignant linking of those defections to what he sees as his country's pervasive moral and material decay: "(He) wondered how anybody worth anything could continue to live...