Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King said he got the idea for his book, The Dead Zone, in which a man is able to see the future, from thinking about what one would do if given the opportunity to kill Hitler before he rose to power...
...Good stories often start with subversive immoral ideas like, would assasination ever be moral? Is it ever right? Does there ever come a time where you say to people `pick up the gun. Do it.' I wrote the book to see what I think," King said...
Duncan, who was press secretary for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' presidential campaign, is writing a book about the 1988 New Hampshire primary. He also served as the deputy press secretary for Walter F. Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign...
...book's protagonist, Jayson Lyman, is an investment banker who grips his peach-colored Financial Times "like a swagger stick." Advised by his boss that French magnate Marcel Bresson is out to buy News/Worldweek, Lyman is ready to leap to the American company's defense. "You mean foreigners, the French of all people, think they can take over the biggest media company in America? They'll get their butts kicked!" But Lyman's boss informs him that their firm has been retained by the other side...
...scribe named Salman, who commits an unthinkable sin. His job is to write down the revelations of God as recited by Mahound, Rushdie's fictional prophet. But the mischievous scribe repeatedly changes Mahound's words. When the prophet finally realizes that Salman has corrupted the text of his holy book, he explodes, "Your blasphemy can't be forgiven." The proper punishment for Salman's crime is death, but Mahound is merciful and spares his life...