Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market cried for a book as laden with sex and violence as Godfather, like it, fiction suggested by fact and validated by history, but heated with a little racial spice...
...100th anniversary of Einstein's birth, and the chapter Sagan devotes to him is reflective of the event, brimming with amusing anecdotes and quotes. The portrait of Goddard glows with Sagan's adulation of the great eccentric and pioneer. If there's any problem with these two portraits, in fact, it's that they're almost oo good--you wish you were reading a book by one of the two, instead of just a chapter about...
...disregard the combined overall record of 1-6-1 the teams drag on to the field. Disregard the fact that Dartmouth's offense has been putting up doughnuts on the scoreboard faster than a Dutch bake shop...
...KIRKLAND DID EXIST, he'd had died of exhaustion long ago. Halfway through the movie, you're overwhelmed by the feeling that he should go into another field. Any field. Jewison said the cases in the movie are all based on actual incidents, a believable fact. But if the cases are true, they couldn't all be taken by the same lawyer--no one could handle a caseload like Kirkland...
Kurt Vonnegut's perennial semi-autobiographical protagonist returns this time as Walter F. Starbuck, and he is a Harvard man. He is so much a Harvard man, in fact, that were Vonnegut less obvious in writing his titles this book might well be called Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard. Vonnegut's hero still peacefully accepts life's highs and lows, but Harvard has changed him: the lows seem a little lower, the highs a little higher, and the accepting a little harder...