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...take his equilibrium along. "Success often catches a writer at his most morbid time," Le Carré theorizes, "when he has finished a book. He has been to the end of his talent. It is a frightening view. I went a bit crazy." Flung into the celebrity circuit, he was "eaten alive, asked questions which I felt invasive and impossible to answer." He produced another book, The Looking Glass War, but it brought little satisfaction; reviewers said the adventure could not compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script of The Spy Who Came...
...will hang on the wall when the fish are eaten...
...after serving Amin for six years as principal private secretary and later as Minister of Health. Written with the help of a former Reuters correspondent, John Man, A State of Blood is full of sensational detail. Kyemba reports for instance that Amin has experimented with cannibalism. "I have eaten human meat," he once remarked. "It is very salty, even more salty than leopard meat." Although Amin's bizarre behavior has been attributed to the prolonged effects of syphilitic infection, Kyemba is not so sure: "He knows well enough how to stage-manage his rages." In 1973 a French television...
...nine lives, but some could make the Guinness Book of World Records with only one. Tom Cadillac, so christened for his feat, was accidentally shipped in a Cadillac chassis from the U.S. to Australia-a seven-week trip at the time-and was still alive on arrival. He had eaten the engine grease and the car's instruction manual. Chat Beau, a four-year-old male, found his human family in Texarkana...
...fast-food outlets, typically emphasizing limited menus and rapid turnover, sprout on highways, city boulevards and small-town streets like mushrooms (which they often architecturally resemble). For every dollar spent on food eaten away from home, an estimated 40? goes to fast-food emporiums. The total sales this year are expected to reach $20 billion. McDonald's, the giant of the industry, will very soon sell its 23 billionth hamburger. A Texas chain called Church's Fried Chicken uses up 37 million pickled jalapenos per year. In 1976 the 700-plus units of Taco Bell consumed 1 million...