Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering the competition, then, Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap have not committed any grievous sins in writing .44, a novelized account of Berkowitz's 14-month killing spree. But they haven't done much of a service, either: the book reads more like a dime-store cheapie than a presumably classy $10 hardback, and what goes between those hard covers is enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when the Papal Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed...
...directors of Godot that "nothing is more grotesque than the tragic," and all of his works prove it. Beckett's clowns and cripples suffer and rant in a world as comic as it is hopeless, comic because it is hopeless. Easy cynics, in literature and life, are a dime a dozen. Bair's biography shows how rigorously and painfully Beckett earned his vision, and with what heroism he prevailed over...
...biggest man in the largest manufacturing company in the world sits at a cluttered desk that is piled high with sales reports, production analyses, sheaves of magazines and a couple of dime-store signs that proclaim BLESS THIS MESS and PLEASE DON'T STRAIGHTEN THE MESS ON MY DESK! YOU'LL GOOF UP MY SYSTEM. Thomas Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors...
Mallardi believes strongly in the ideal of the suffering artist. According to her, no true artist, including the photographer, should expect to make a dime from his or her work. "Every great artist came from poverty," Mallardi told me. "The worst thing was to go home and tell your family. Now the arts are being permeated by the middle class, and the middle class is funding mediocrity...
...fields that may soon be opened in the fertile fishing grounds of Georges Bank, writes Mrs. Simon, will have a 20-year life, during which there is a 91% chance of at least one major spill and near certainty that there will be more than 1,700 "nickel-and-dime" disasters. The public, she laments, seems unconcerned. "The trade-off is almost made - a viable coast for the plunge offshore, for a few more moments of twilight before the oil lamp goes out, for prolonging the ocean-sink concept until some version of Black Mayonnaise hits us in the face...