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...piling up. The fundamental questions still are: Was any money from Madison Guaranty improperly funneled into Governor Clinton's campaigns, or into the Clintons' pockets? And did the Governor repay with political favors to the S&L? But any attempt to answer quickly leads into a tangled financial-political underbrush, which seems to get thornier every day. Some new problems...
Sure. But don't tell anyone. Naturally, the word spreads, to a drinking buddy, his girlfriend, a wife and so on. There's nothing wrong with the narrative idea here, and the reader should skid amiably into the underbrush of Chapter 2, as the treasure finders turn into thieves and murderers, miring themselves in treachery. But Smith has written a story in which all the characters, not excluding the first-person narrator, are stupid, mean and boring. They are jerks, irredeemable fools, and if one sat down next to you at a bar and started talking, you would pay your...
...hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister hit their mobile home. She was found 40 minutes later in the underbrush, wet and scratched -- but alive...
...cinematic commonplace. Then again, it may simply be the crazy nerve of this project that disarms one's critical faculties: the French and Indian Wars; a protagonist named Hawkeye; a red-coated English army marching in straight stupid lines through the forest; wily Indian enemies skittering through the underbrush, a menace not only to the soldiery but to virtuous femininity as well...
...soon as ordinary people from Dresden and Potsdam, wearing tennis shoes and loaded with plastic bags and perambulators, were seen hobbling through the underbrush across the Hungarian border in the fall of 1989, crowding embassies in Warsaw and trains in Prague, there were raised eyebrows and mixed feelings in Bonn and elsewhere. For there is nothing dearer to the heart of responsible statesmen than stability. Yalta may have had certain drawbacks, but it was an arrangement one had learned to live with -- and in the end any situation seemed acceptable as long as it was "under control...