Biography EssayAlthough Larry McMurtry has moved beyond the status of a minor regional writer, he is still closely identified with Texas. His first six novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow G...
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"I remember laboring, around 1971, on a screen offering for John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda, a bittersweet, end-of-the-West Western, in which no scalps were taken and no victories were won,...
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LARRY McMURTRY is closely identified with Texas. All six of his novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow Grave) reflect life in his native state. Born 3 June 1936 in Wichita Falls, he was educat...
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[This entry was updated by Sarah English (Meredith College) from the entry by John Gerlach (Cleveland State University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 137-150.]La...
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Larry McMurtry's work is marked by his imaginative connections with the American West. Drawn to place, McMurtry demonstrates in his work the mythic pattern of escape and return to his "blood's country...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Rabinowitz
[As Terms of Endearment proves, Larry McMurtry] is possessed of gifts that seem to be growing ever more rare among American novelists, chief among these being a t...
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Yes, love is a many-splendored thing but sometimes a person, in her down-to-earth moments, may feel as if a relationship is a series of problems to be solved. A few of those problems have to do wi...
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The city council is considering a symbolic resolution calling for New Yorkers to stop using the n-word, and supporters say Black History Month is a relevant time to call attention to the racial slu...
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A city councilman says he hears it over and over on the streets of New York City: young people casually addressing each other using a racial slur that has a painful history intertwined with slavery...
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Jack Nicholson, the legendary ladies' man, says he'd like to fall in love again."I never minded being a fool for love," the 70-year-old Oscar winner tells AARP The Magazine. "It's nice to have a pl...
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Kevin O'Connell's previous 19 Oscar nominations were nothing like this.The 50-year-old sound mixer, who holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations without a win, received his 20th nomi...
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We all know how many celebrities are just plain "eccentric," but Mr. Jackson, you take the mothereffing cake. When people call you "Wacko Jacko" it's sometimes a term of endearment. Like, "There go...
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(EDS: COMBINING STORY HEADLINED 'PHILIPPINE PRES. ARROYO OFFERS
CONDOLENCES TO SHUHARTO'S FAMILY')
Southeast Asian leaders sent condolences and remembrances Sunday
to the family of former In...
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The National Rifle Association can’t stand Mayor Michael Bloomberg. One of its minions called the Mayor a “national gun-control vigilante.” This was meant as an insult. Another N....
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With a debate swirling nationwide over the n-word, a historically black college in Alabama has set aside four days to discuss the racial slur.Participants at the conference, which began Thursday an...
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Larry McMurtry
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Rabinowitz
Terms of Endearment
