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Article: THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY IVINS.(SHOWTIME)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Byline: LAURA LIPPMAN The Baltimore Sun -
Outspoken Texas columnist two-steps onto `60 Minutes'
AUSTIN, Texas -- On a blustery day in March, most of Central Texas is under a tornado watch, with dark clouds poised to sweep down on the city. But in Molly Ivins' limestone house on the south side, an irony watch is in effect. Eyebrows arch. Tones shift subtly, creating aural quotation marks around seemingly innocuous comments.
``One advantage to being a minor regional celebrity such as myself,'' she begins in her beguiling drawl. Whoa. To paraphrase the title of her best-selling first book, Molly Ivins didn't just say that, did she?
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