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...Hobbesian sense of the world, the battle of all against all, extends from the swamps of Louisiana (populated by a tangled bestiary of paranoid deer, coons, foxes, bright-eyed, indifferent herons and fish-chomping alligators, glaring at one another like bikers on Methedrine) to the boardrooms of the Sunbelt. Thanks to a Baptist background, he also has a taste for the religious grotesque, which gets full play in Tintorettoesque machines like The Little Prince Prohibited from Polishing His Crown...
Nobody does the cowboy blarney better than Larry McMurtry, elegist of the old Southwest and observer of the new culture in the Sunbelt, where the air conditioner is king. Yet his novels are not nearly as well known as the movies made from them. Horseman, Pass By is more recognizable as Hud. The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment have had far more viewers than readers. Lonesome Dove, McMurtry's tenth novel, is probably stampeding toward the screen at this moment. But first things first...
...year is 2032, and a new ice age is slowly freezing up the earth. Northern U.S. cities must be largely evacuated every winter and their residents relocated in the Sunbelt. Strict population control is in force, and only a few lucky couples can win the right, in a Government-run lottery, to have a second child. Their chilly, straitened lives have made people understandably glum; the Department of the Environment has been ordered by the President to find some way to cheer them up. Dr. Judith Carriol, a high-ranking official in the department, conducts a massive search and finally...
Length of season is the large factor separating Eastern baseball from the powerhouses of the sunbelt states. To appreciate the Crimson's 3-4 showing at last week's Riverside Baseball Invitational, consider the number of games the other schools had already played...
...Sunbelt centrists who feel the greatest need for change; right now, they dare not identify themselves with the national party image. One example: in a number of states, popular Democratic Governors would seem to have the best chance of defeating Republican Senators who will be running for re-election in 1986, but the Governors are reluctant to try. Fred DuVal, an adviser to Arizona's Babbitt, explains that a Governor can present himself to voters as being independent, but "when you run for the Senate you can count on losing eight to ten points (in popularity) just because you become...