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Which is, in fact, exactly what he did. Timequake was scheduled for publication some years ago, but Vonnegut pulled the plug just before the book went to press. His reason, as he explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...
...body of work that spans three decades and eighteen books, all of them still in print. He notes that, unlike the many writers of his generation, he has lived to a ripe old age. "I got to look back," he crowed at the Brattle, "And I feel lucky as hell." In the course of "looking back" through the lens of Timequake, he covers a lot of familiar ground: his trademark anti-nuclear sentiments are very much in evidence, especially at the beginning of the book, and he spends a good deal of time on World War II and the death...
Terry Linn, a 21-year-old member of Delta Chi, dies attending "Hell Night" rite of passage party at Bloomsburg University as a result of alcohol poisoning, reported an article from The Daily Item in April. Linn's blood alcohol level...
...about and what he really means to the team, look no farther than the clincher against the Cubs last Thursday. He got drilled in the back of the head by a Jeremi Gonzalez fastball. The crack was audible on the replays, so you know it had to hurt like hell...
...real life, Alley is just like that drink, which goes down sweet--until the lemon tang hits. Ted Danson, who played Sam the horny bartender to Alley's sexually frustrated Rebecca Howe on Cheers, affectionately calls her "the biker chick from hell." She will say and do anything for a laugh, as Americans learned in 1991, when she thanked her husband Parker Stevenson for "giving me the big one" as she picked up her Emmy for Cheers. Her Hollywood pals didn't know what to think recently when she publicly ribbed her buddy John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston...