Word: paso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charlie (Nicholson) has come to El Paso, where he works as a border patrol man, at the urging of his ditsy wife Marcy (Valerie Perrine). This is a couple living on memories-of the days when he had all his hair and less gut and she had not yet become a middle-aged Barbie doll from overexposure to The Price Is Right. To finance all of Marcy's dear dreams, Charlie agrees to look the other way when illegal immigrants are spirited across the border to serve as the wetback-bone of Texas agriculture. It remains for Maria (Elpidia...
...delivery boy said excitedly: "I've only seen it once boy said excitedly: "I've only seen it once before." There were some real problems: power outages were widespread, the Rio Grande Valley's tomato and pepper crops were nearly wiped out. In El Paso, where the streets iced over, 126 minor car accidents occurred during one 1 ½-hour period. Said a policeman: "It was Demolition Derby...
...pinpointed Abbott traveling by bus from New York to Pennsylvania, then to Washington, D.C., and finally on to Chicago. At that point he was two days behind his quarry. Majeski assumed that Abbott would visit his sister in Salt Lake City, but he turned up instead in El Paso, Texas, then in Mexico City. By now the hunter was only one day behind the hunted. But then Majeski lost the trail and did not pick it up for another week, when Abbott was sighted in Vera Cruz...
Majeski began setting the final trap when Abbott reappeared in El Paso and bought a bus ticket to New Orleans...
...spread straddling the New Mexico-Arizona border. Called the Lazy B, it had been in the Day family since 1881 -three decades before Arizona became a state. Her grandfather had traveled from Vermont to found it. Sandra, first of the Days' three children, was born in an El Paso hospital because the remote area in which they lived had no medical facilities; their ranch house had neither electricity nor running water. Greenlee County also had no schools that met her parents' standards, so Sandra spent much of her youth with a grandmother in El Paso, attending the private...