Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee for the Re-Election of the President. "This isn't the Nixon of the '50s. Jews have heard Hubert Humphrey talking about arms reductions for 20 years. But who gets the SALT talks going? Richard Nixon." If Richard Nixon can also win a solid chunk of the Jewish vote, it will be a feat scarcely less audacious-or less significant for American politics-than meeting Chou for dinner...
...tried to get a friend who is, like Gary, a football player and an intellectual in his own way, to read End Zone. I suggested he start with the thirty-one page chapter that renders the entire Centrex game play-by-play--an honest and entertaining chunk of fiction, probably the best extended account of a football game ever written. But my friend wouldn't bite, because DeLillo hasn't quite got all the way inside football in this novel, and hasn't got all the way inside the novel form. The tasks aren't mutually exclusive but the novel...
...write a check." Figuring that regular mail might be ignored, he sent fifty-odd registered letters, which arrived in New York around 6:30 a.m. Guy's bleary-eyed friends wrote profanities on the receipts; they also sent money. In three weeks he had $2000. Royalties claimed a major chunk, the stage construction another. Even the xerox bill came in at an astronomical...
...with ice picks. He had gained his status by serving as one member (Colombo was another) of a five-man execution squad of Mafia Boss Joe Profaci in the late '50s. Police claim they had scored 40 hits. By then he and his brothers had carved out a chunk of the Brooklyn rackets; they turned against Profaci, touching off a gang war in which nine mobsters died and three disappeared...
September Song's first section consists of a large chunk of Threepenny Opera. The cast-does a fairly good interpretation of this masterpiece of the Brecht-Weill collaboration, although Marc Blitzstein's creaky English translations, especially of "How to Survive" and "Pirate Jenny," are beginning to show their age. Blitzstein's lyrics do not fit the rhythm of the music as well as they should, and it may well be time for someone to try his hand at a new version. Blitzstein's "Mack the Knife," of course, will never be replaced, but the rest of his songs are uneven...