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Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Adam P. Schneider, Jannie S. Tsuei, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing a Curveball | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...Texan. I’m from the Wild West, let there be no mistake about...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Adam P. Schneider, Jannie S. Tsuei, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing a Curveball | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...Texan, lobster is not exactly typical fare for you, right...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Adam P. Schneider, Jannie S. Tsuei, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing a Curveball | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...without disclosing the original allegation because a court injunction prohibits that--of a racy claim about him by a former aide with a history of alcoholism. Never mind: next week all of Fleet Street will be awash with coverage of the person a U.S. diplomat ruefully dubbed "the toxic Texan," whose handling of international affairs is panned by two-thirds of Brits. White House officials know their boss is making life awkward for his First Friend. "Maybe they'll keep the lights off and pretend they're not home," quips a Bush aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From London: The George and Tony Show Could Get Wild | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...people around him: his mom is obsessed with fancy appliances, an opportunistic TV reporter is obsessed with his career, young women are obsessed with getting rich (except for the ones who have hearts of gold, of course). All dialogue in Vernon God Little is rendered in strenuously lifelike Texan diction ("Six packa Coors, I'll go git it") larded with hick malapropisms--you know you're not supposed to like Little's mom because she calls Ricardo Montalban "Ricardo Moltenbomb." Pierre has a field day with the alienated apercus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writer Wrong | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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