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Among the reclaimed "best parts" are such doodles of doom as, "For practically everybody, the end of the world can't come soon enough" and "Being alive is a crock..." Having a novelist's free hand to write what you will does not mean you are entitled to a free ride. Vonnegut, soon to be 75, struggled too long for his success to be naive on that point. But in a sorrowful preface he says Timequake is his last novel and asks readers to "have pity...
...Rafael, Calif.) He was a meditator par excellence, he recalls, and would hear angels singing and have "visuals." When Maharishi began promising that TM practitioners could learn to "fly," photos of Gray flying were posted in TM centers throughout the world. Gray now says the flying thing was a crock; what he was doing was more like "bouncing." But most important, Gray learned how to build an international organization. "All that was very helpful for me--to see what's possible, to know the ropes," he says...
Arthritis experts are dubious. "A pure crock," snorts Dr. Gerald Weissmann, head of N.Y.U. Medical Center's rheumatology division. Other doctors point out that it's impossible to separate the effects of the supplements from those of the other steps in Dr. Theo's program. And many are harshly critical of the book's title--noting that there is no known "cure" for osteoarthritis...
Calling the accusations a "crock," John Donahue, a long-time friend of Reich and a Kennedy School professor, argues that a secretary of labor can not at the same time run a family...
...comes Old Man Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...