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I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.