Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bender replete with laser effects, magic tricks, assorted marvelous machines, sundry intermittent detonations, a finale full of fireworks... and, oh yes, a healthy portion of good solid funk. Soul Train meets Star Wars on the outskirts of Las Vegas. A lot of-quite literal-bang for the buck...
Vengeance is S & S's second attempt to market a dubiously documented story. Five years ago, a writer named Rinker Buck approached the company with the story. Buck and his Israeli informant were offered a $60,000 book advance, with $20,000 as down payment. But when Buck went off to Europe to check the facts, he found many discrepancies in the Israeli's account: "He was changing his story daily...
After telling his editors of his concerns, Buck decided he was ethically unable to do the book. So Peter Schwed, then chairman of the editorial board of S & S, recommended that the book be turned into a spy novel ("That's a simple way of presenting something you are nervous about presenting as fact," he told the Wall Street Journal). Two novelists declined...
...square in Marshall, seat of Searcy County, Ark., men sit around in front of Buck Mays' store whittling down sticks of cedar. They do not whittle an object-a slingshot, say, or a whistle-so much as they just whittle away the stick. They make long, precise strokes, and the shavings curl before the blade like something delicate being wound. When the stick is reduced to an aromatic pile on the sidewalk, they go and get another...
...course, unlikely that Bok will suddenly drop his philosophical objection and embrace the new ACSR line. But, he must take the report more seriously than he has taken student protesters. The ACSR, traditionally a lightning rod to deflect student discontent, has now passed the buck...