Word: chaptered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virus brought back from the upper atmosphere by a Scoop satellite that has crashed in the middle of the Arizona desert. Since the enterprising virus multiplies at a giddy rate, they must, of course, do in the thing by the time it gets to Phoenix. From the very first chapter (when one member of a surveillance team, looking down at a seemingly-dead desert town, says "We'd better go down and take a look"), Crichton's reader is sucked into the kind of Saturday afternoon fantasy that used to be the staple of movie house matinees during the fifties...
...Editor Harrison Salisbury, who now plans to write a book on the Times. It might be argued that Gay Talese's bestselling saga of the Times-The Kingdom and the Power-makes Salisbury's effort unnecessary. After the events of last week, however, at least one new chapter seems in order...
...spieled out a scenario. There is this banking family, he winged - Morgan or Roth schild types, with the second generation vying among themselves for command after the death of the patriarch. The saga would unfold in novel form, not with self-contained weekly story segments but chapter by chapter. The Survivors would also be more sophisticated than conventional television - "A story," as Robbins put it, "of today's morals...
...calls, and has difficulty only in getting a fix on her unraveling character. "There have been so many story versions that I am still trying to figure out what kind of woman I am," she complains. Last week, for instance, Lana had to shoot the sixth chapter, though the third chapter still lacks a final script...
...from its lobbying operation; in practice, however, the division is strictly a bookkeeping procedure. It is virtually impossible, moreover, to ascertain which candidate receives exactly how much from AMPAC. Following the letter of the law, the A.M.A. reports simply that it has sent a flat amount to a state chapter. Individual members are told not to contribute more than $99 to the A.M.A. national fund, thereby excluding themselves from the federal law which requires that contributors giving $100 or more must be named. In any event, state-level gifts are hard to trace: only 43 states have reporting laws; these...