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...year from now, people will say the idea that this guy was going to retire is a laugh. I've got three novels to finish up [in] this Dark Towers cycle that I've been publishing since 1982. There's a book coming out this fall, From a Buick 8, and so far as I know, that's the last Stephen King novel, per se, in terms of it just being a novel-novel...
...novelist who churned out books into his 80s. King said he worries about repeating himself, which seems inevitable, since he's published at least a book a year since 1974. He plans to finish the last three novels in his "Dark Tower" series and this fall publish From a Buick Eight, about a car he describes as "not normal." Chances are it will be abnormal in ways different from Christine, but at least we'll probably be spared a novel about children who worship sweet potatoes...
...when the first shiny white Buick rolled out of GM's new Shanghai plant, no one talked seriously about selling the car to China's millions of consumers. The factory would produce Buicks for corporate and government fleets, with a targeted annual run of 100,000 units...
With the largest presence in China of America's Big Three, GM is well positioned to grab an early lead in selling to the nation's growing middle class. The company is ramping up production of its compact Buick Sail (based on its Opel Corsa design). Other foreign automakers planning to produce compacts in China include Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota and Citroen...
...composition. He could not read music. He employed arrangers to transcribe the pulsing melodies and often complex harmonies that poured out of his head and through his clumsy fingers. He could play in only one key, banging out his numbers on a special piano (he called it "the Buick") that, with the push of a pedal, could transpose keys. Even on his own machine, Berlin was a lousy salesman of his music; his ragged vocal and instrumental technique could undermine his best work. In 1934, Fred Astaire and the "Top Hat" production team gathered to hear the numbers Berlin...