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...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 riffraff. The effect is to scatter the novel's focus so that a complete, fully plotted detective story about a crooked Texas Ranger can be misplaced, almost unnoticed, in one , corner. A dominant central figure might hold all of this together, but the novel's heroine, Texas newspaperwoman Betsy Throckmorton, is something less than the gale-force wind that is needed, and her role becomes that of an agreeable mistress of ceremonies...
...Sloane Ranger would consider her wardrobe complete without a pair. Members of the hunting-and-fishing set are rarely seen in any other footwear. This insignia of English country life, the Hunter Wellington boot, has now made an unusual crossover: into the cow shed...
...static; Waits harrumphs and coughs, scratches himself, sits on the bed to shave his neck, then, curious, points his electric shaver at the set and hits the button: zap, the fuzz snaps for a second to Waits furiously singing. Hmm. He hits the shaver again--Waits in a Lone Ranger mask. Again--Waits in a satin white jacket. Chuckling, he turns away, pulls a sheet over his boots and jeans, and falls asleep. The TV fritzes again, as it does between scenes through out the movie, and we're with Waits onstage in the white jacket--cuffs too short, wrist...
...lawsuits brought by personal-injury lawyers, the Ford Motor Co. would still be making defective Pintos, which burst into flames when struck from behind." He describes the firm he founded 62 years ago, which has now become Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis, in terms that would make the Lone Ranger blush: "Champion of the weak, defender of the poor, the equalizer in the arena of litigation...
...cars. Some will be gussied-up versions of existing models -- known in the trade as "re-skins" -- while one will be a completely new model. Later this year the firm plans to unveil a Ford Thunderbird with styling resembling a BMW. Also in the works: face-lifts for the Ranger pickup and Bronco II sport-utility vehicle; a nip and tuck for the Taurus; a version of the Aerostar van that will stretch 15 in. longer than the current 14 1/2-ft. model; and by 1991 a compact four-wheel-drive van designed by Nissan and made by Ford to compete...