Word: dicks
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Elkin is America's master literary pitchman. No fiction writer sells ideas and myths with more elan and imagination. His fantasies about popular culture and allegorical burlesques have been set in places as disparate as a department-store basement (A Bad Man), an all-night radio station (The Dick Gibson Show) and heaven and hell (The Living...
...party's greatest success so far has been in Alaska, where a Libertarian has been elected to the state legislature. While there, Dick Randolph has successfully secured the repeal of the state income tax, and he is now running for governor...
...DEADEYE DICK by Kurt Vonnegut Delacorte; 240 pages...
These terms are from the account of Rudy Waltz, pharmacist, playwright and nonstop bore. Rudy was twelve when he fired a Springfield rifle out of a window. And killed a pregnant woman eight blocks away. On Mother's Day. Hence the sobriquet Deadeye Dick. Talk about irony...
...spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family of encryption schemes, so called because one of their secret code words, or keys, can be made public without giving anything away...