Word: bookings
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...diversion of government funds. Through the wiles of CIA Director Wiley Slaughter (Alvin Epstein)--a thinly disguised lampoon of former real-life CIA Director William Casey--$800 million in government funds is diverted to produce a Hollywood epic. "Tet Offensive"--the film which was based on the book, "Tet Offensive," which was further based on the real-life Vietnam war attack--was to be shot in Central America. Only this time the target, that is the target in the film, was to be the Communist occupied Central American nation of Ambigua...
Cage created each Norton lecture by choosing entries from each of the fifteen sections of the book. He then selected passages from the writings of Wittgenstien, Fuller, McLuhan, Thoreau, Emerson, L.C. Beckett's Neti Neti and sentences from major newspapers...
...Next Trick, I'll Right a Book: When asked to describe how he became an integral member of the Penn basketball team in just a couple weeks, Quaker freshman walk-on Paul Chambers replied, "I'm not going to say. I'm going to write a book...
...brings with her an attitude, which she mentioned early on: "I guess Cher was right." ((Cher once called Letterman an unprintable name on the air.)) I thought that was untoward, needless. And then, when I would ask her the questions, about her past lives or about her book or about her film -- projects that she had devoted no small measure of time and effort to -- she just couldn't be bothered. So I thought to myself: Why are you on this show, lady? There was not a gun at this woman's head. I have less and less patience...
Wallerstein's conclusions, presented in a new book, Second Chances ; (Ticknor & Fields; $19.95), are drawn from interviews conducted over a 15- year period with 60 families, most of them white middle class. Included were 131 children, who were 2 to 18 years old at the time of the divorce. Among the findings...