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...creator gives me the honor of finally driving Dwayne over the brink. Now that I'm free, I want to deny that I ever existed in this novel; I was the unwilling dupe in a mad production. Vonnegut won't get off by claiming he's clearing his head "of all the junk in there." He can't expect me, his own creation, to sympathize with him when he tells his schizophrenic self in a bar in his own novel that he's writing a "very bad book...
Though he had been on the brink of moving for some time, Connally's final decision came suddenly. He had not talked it over with Richard Nixon. After the President gave his speech on Watergate, Connally phoned his congratulations but avoided mentioning his own political plans. Next day he mulled over the speech, then made up his mind. "Watergate is a sordid mess," he explained at a press conference in a Houston bank, where he is a director. "But it was a silly, stupid, illegal act performed by individuals. The Republican Party didn...
...four airy Auroras who dance alternate performances, Karen Kain is an unexpected delight. In the pirouettes and balances of the Rose Adagio, she sustains holds to the brink of disaster...
...would appear from "Second Thoughts About Man" that modern rationalists are trembling on the brink of the stupendous discovery that "man has an irreducible core of evil"-which seems to be intellectualese for the old-fashioned concept that he is a sinner. Is it possible that after wandering for years in the wilderness with Marx, Freud and Darwin, they are about to return to the Father's house...
This is the story of Dwayne Hoover, a Pontiac dealer in Midland City, U.S.A. As Kurt Vonnegut explains on the opening page, Hoover is "on the brink of going insane." He has many reasons of the traditional kind: his wife went mad and killed herself by swallowing Drano; his hostile son is a homosexual who plays piano in a cocktail lounge; and his mistress, of whom he wants to know "what life is all about," suggests that the site across from their motel room would be a good place for him to buy her a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken...