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That's the antiestablishment view of Hoeg's heroine, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her mother, a hunter and tracker, and the comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been...
...family. In a jumbled kind of way, he manages to honor both obligations, and everyone heads toward the Mexican border and the winding down of McMurtry's beguiling legend. The author's minor characters are sketched with a fine, loose skill; there's an old Indian tracker named Famous Shoes, and a white man who has spent his life roaming the Southwest with a pack of dogs, killing off the region's bears...
Detroit is doing it the old-fashioned way: by giving good value to those who buy its vehicles. "From a competitive standpoint, I think American autos have surpassed the Japanese," observes Thomas Flagg, a trucking executive in Trenton, New Jersey, who recently purchased a Chevrolet Geo Tracker for his daughter. "On a dollar-for-dollar basis, I think you'll get more for your money from an American...
That will be their only meeting place. Within days of his flight from Indianapolis, Jackson made the FBI's Most Wanted list. But the feds were not the ones who ran him to earth in Wright City, Missouri. That honor belonged to J.R. Buchanan, a professional tracker right out of a Clint Eastwood movie. J.R. was famous for phrases like "Put your skill against ever what you're hunting" -- and that is exactly what...
...George Orwell said, everyone has the face he deserves. Barry Diller had that face by the time he was 30 and a fast-tracker at ABC. His premature baldness and stark visage gave him the look of an Edsel with the top down. And he already possessed that icy stare that made him, according to one Hollywood wit, "the last person you'd want to spill a drink on at a cocktail party." These, and a great gut for pop culture, served him well as chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to '84, when it produced golden-calf movies (Grease...