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...American dream is a big tent dream," Jackson said. "All of us fit in one big tent and none of us are left on the margins," he said...
Jackson described the shared characteristics of the dream as equal treatment, opportunity, access to social goods and entitlement to those goods. All of these requirements, Jackson maintains, will build a "big tent" open to all "those who yearn to breath...
...enlarge the tent through economic channels involves, according to Jackson, bridging the gap between the "state of the political union" and the "state of Wall Street." This process will require the navigation of two very different sets of economic systems...
Except the story doesn't end there. Late last year, to the general amazement of Austin's literary community, Lars Eighner was homeless again, living in a tent by a creek bridge not far from where he had written his famous book, eating from Dumpsters again, destitute and with few prospects. For more than two weeks, he lived there with his dog Lizbeth and the same male companion he has been with for nearly a decade. Then some of Eighner's friends rescued him, at least temporarily. For now, by the grace of those friends, the 49-year-old writer...
...wrong; and, more important, E.F. ("Sonny") Dewey. E.F. is the Texas preacher in The Apostle, a complex, cantankerous drama that Duvall wrote, directed, stars in and--after all the studios turned down the $5 million project--paid for. This renegade Pentecostalist has the spiel and showmanship to fill a tent or a temple; when E.F. talks, people listen. "I'm a genu-wine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this mornin'!" He can woo a dying man to the Lord, but he can't heed his own gospel. He menaces his frazzled wife (Farrah Fawcett) and clubs a rival with...