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...novelist knows his way around the block. Take the first sentence of Larry McMurtry's moody, sensitive, ironic yet lightheartedly despairing new novel: "Duane was in the hot tub, shooting at his new doghouse with a .44 Magnum." The Jamesian restraint of the language -- not "Blam, blam, blam, wood chips glinted in the dusty air," but a dreamlike, almost passive kind of doghouse blasting -- foreshadows subtle stuff. The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets won't perforate anything important) whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After The Last Picture Show TEXASVILLE | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And To Keep Our Honor Clean | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

RESULTS (Harvard players in Caps) Singles: I, Katie Molumphy def. KATHY VIGNA, 2-6, 6-2, 6-0; 2, ROBIN BOSS def. Amy Richardson, 6-0, 6-2; 3, KRISTIN BLAND def. Chrissy Wood, 6-3, 6-0; 4, CYNDY AUSTRIAN def. Lisa Rosamilia, 6-3, 6-4; 5, CHRISTINA DRAGOMIRESCU def. Berit Hanna, 3-6, 6-4, 7-2; 6, KATHY MULVEHAL def. Julie Walsh...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Netwomen Soar Over Eagles, 7-2; West Coast Trip Proves Big Bonus | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

Doubles: 1, BOSS-BLAND def. Richardson-Cathryn Sullivan, 6-4, 6-2; 2, VIGNA-AUSTRIAN def. Molumphy-Wood, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2; 3, Christina Callahan-Heidi Kunichika def. MULVEHAL-DRAGOMIRESCU...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Netwomen Soar Over Eagles, 7-2; West Coast Trip Proves Big Bonus | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

...those asked at the first practice session.) He answered in a straightforward way, avoiding the jokes he sometimes tells to entertain his audience. "I was really nervous until practice today," said one staffer that afternoon. "The President is on target; he'll do fine." The aide then knocked on wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prepping The President | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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