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...fact that, increasingly, guns are involved suggest that a more sophisticated and more daring class of thief is at work. "Criminals are stopping and thinking," says a London detective. "These jobs indicate planning. They are not just a matter of grabbing a wig and a sawed-off shotgun...
...heroes of these tales have one thing in common: both come from Vicksburg, Miss. So does Hubert ("Baby") Levaster, a doctor hooked on booze, drugs and depravity, who packs a .410 shotgun pistol (its shells stuffed with popcorn) and steers the brain-damaged French Edward around the pro tennis tour. "Levaster banged him a hard blow against the heart. He saw French come alive and turn a happy regard to the court." What happens when these three characters mix, along with their assorted relatives, friends and lovers, is deliberately unbelievable; in extending two stories into a sketchy novel, Hannah creates...
...Duluth. The novel is a shotgun satire of, among other things, the modern literary racket, from assembly line romances to academic criticism. Take, for example, Vidal's mock theory of après poststructuralism: "Corollary to the relative fictive law of absolute uniqueness is the simultaneity effect, which is to fiction what Miriam Heisenberg's law is to physics. It means that any character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name...
...appear for his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. Assuming he had fled, Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. issued a warrant for his arrest. Dubberstein, however, had not turned fugitive. His body was found in his friend's apartment, where, investigators said, he had put a shotgun to his head and killed himself. That was no confession of guilt, of course. But it was a tragic way of pleading nolo contendere...
...When no one moved, he threw a tear-gas canister into the crowd and then struck Mkhize in the face. The angry crowd surged toward the police, jostling them. Nienaber retreated to his van and pulled out of the yard. Inexplicably, he then jumped from the van with a shotgun and declared he would shoot. As the crowd dispersed, Nienaber fired, shooting Mkhize fatally in the chest. The police claimed that Nienaber acted in self-defense, but public outrage over the killing has swept South Africa. Says Civil Rights Activist Josie Adler: "Saul was not a radical. He just wanted...