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April 28, 1998
FiresMount Airy: Firefighters responded at 2: 55 p.m. Saturday to a barn fire in the 1800 block of Florence Road. Units were out two hours and 10 minutes.Mount Airy: Firefighters responded at 2: 08 p.m. Sunday to a woods fire in the 5100 block of Almeria Court. Units were out 50 minutes.Mount Airy: Firefighters responded at 7: 18 p.m. Sunday to a trash fire at Lonesome Dove and Sierra roads. Units were out one hour and 16 minutes.Mount Airy: Firefighters responded at 11: 17 p.m. Sunday to investigate smoke in a home at Lonesome Dove and Sierra roads.
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By Paul Moore and Paul Moore,SUN STAFF | November 2, 1997
"Comanche Moon," by Larry McMurtry. Simon & Schuster. 752 pages. $28.50.Most of veteran writer Larry McMurtry's novels have been set in Texas and, in metaphorical terms, have been about Texas-sized subjects: betrayal, violence, redemption, friendship, courage, cruelty, power and sex.Whether in historical or contemporary settings, these novels are rich in Lone Star details and are strongly character-driven. McMurtry, whose career spans four decades, achieved breakthrough success in the early 1980s with "Lonesome Dove," a powerful and beautifully written book about 19th-century Texans.
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By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,SUN STAFF | January 25, 1997
If you've never seen "Lonesome Dove," watch it tonight on the Family Channel -- television doesn't get much better than this."Beverly Hills Family Robinson" (8 p.m.-10 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2) -- Dyan Cannon is a perfect homemaker who displays her skills on TV, Martin Mull her dentist husband, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan O'Donohue their spoiled kids. Wouldn't you know it, their lives get turned upside down when they're kidnapped by South Seas pirates and forced to survive on a deserted island.
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By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,SUN STAFF | July 30, 1996
Once the Olympics are over, are you prepared to deal with post-Olympics stress syndrome, the trauma of not being able to watch any more of the games of the 26th Olympiad? Probably not, so maybe you should try to ease yourself back into the mundane reality of everyday TV life by watching just one non-Olympics piece of programming tonight. Here are some suggestions."Nova" (8 p.m.-9 p.m., MPT, Channels 22 and 67) -- "Terror in the Mine Fields" visits Cambodia and looks at the danger of living in a country where 25 years of war have left millions of land mines buried underground.
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By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,SUN STAFF | May 11, 1996
"Dead Man's Walk" is mythic in its approach to the Old West and epic in its scope. It includes some fine acting, wonderful writing and magnificent cinematography, enough violence to keep even the most testosterone-laden male happy and a handful of strong female characters to help balance the equation.But it's no "Lonesome Dove," and your fondness for it will probably be in direct proportion to your willingness to forgive it that transgression.The latest from the guaranteed-ratings-blockbuster pen of Larry McMurtry, "Dead Man's Walk" tells the early adventures of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the two old cusses who took a herd of cattle to Montana in "Lonesome Dove" a few years back.
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By Peter A. Jay | November 16, 1995
HAVRE De GRACE -- ''Life's but a knife edge,'' observes the cattle baron Charles Goodnight near the end of Larry McMurtry's ''Streets of Laredo.'' ''Sooner of later, people slip and get cut.''They sure-enough do, in ordinary life as well as in cowboy novels like Mr. McMurtry's. But in ordinary life in the Clintonian era, such slips are invariably considered to be violations of certain vague rights, and thus provide prime opportunities for plaintiffs' lawyers to enrich themselves in the name of justice.