Word: authors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Laugh-In takes off, the novelist watches at home in Florida with a note pad at hand, sending Rowan comments and suggestions for new bits ("How about a TV interview where the lady interviewer does not realize that she is holding the wrong book and interviewing the wrong author"). Rowan enthusiastically forwards some of these to his staff, tactfully describes others as "filed." A couple of hopelessly naive notions, writes Rowan, "simply point out -- old recluse -- that you get out about as often as Willie Sutton...
...next important step to logging-in is obtaining a communications program. Macintosh owners can purchase MacTerminal or can obtain programs such as Red Ryder from other Mac users (Red Ryder is semi-public domain; instead of being sold in stores, the author expects users to send in a fee if they plan to use the program...
...Once the green light goes on, it's no goal," Cleary, a former referee, a member of the NCAA Rules Committee and the author of the NCAA rulebook said a hundred times after the game last night...
...Salinger may not talk much to reporters, but the author of The Catcher in the Rye does talk to his lawyers. Last year he directed them to halt publication by Random House of an unauthorized biography by Ian Hamilton. The reclusive Salinger objected to the book's use of excerpts and summaries from scores of private letters he had written. Last week (a busy one for literary law watchers after the Bell Jar settlement) a Manhattan federal appeals court ordered a preliminary injunction blocking the book "in its present form...
...long ordeal, he writes, was when he had to rush his pregnant sister to a hospital three days after their bewildered arrival in Washington. Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones. / His portrait of Cambodia lost would in any circumstances be vital anthropology; in the light of what came after, however, it also assumes the weight of almost unbearable elegy...