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Eight hundred pages long and two inches thick, the book is an imposing object that should find many uses. It could serve, for instance, as a booster seat for Junior, a wheel chock for the family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Destroyer | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...also say that Ryan O'Neal gives the character of the neon scion a warmth and vulnerability entirely missing from the bestseller. His part is chock-full of negative benefits. He does not have to parrot book lines like: "Paine Hall? (Ironic goddamn name!)" Or refer to himself in SJ. Perelmanese as "Yours truly: Law Review, All-Ivy, Harvard. Hordes of people were fighting to get my name and numeral onto their stationery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Love Bug | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...above all keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock-full-of-facts. I'm sure you can do it without studying if you try. We did. Best Wishes-A Grader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...above all keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock-full-of-facts. I'm sure you can do it without studying if you try. We did. Best Wishes--A Grade

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

Little Caernarvon is feverishly preparing for the July 1 festivities. Shops along Hole-in-the-Wall Street are chock full of souvenirs: badges and bookmarks, cuff links and key chains, pennants and princely paperbacks. Up at the castle, the clanging carpenters' hammers echo as grandstands rise. By the time the Prince arrives?along with 200,000 less exalted visitors?the town should be more or less fit for a king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES: THE APPRENTICE KING | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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