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...small change; it is programmed into children's video. An animated segment costs the networks about $60,000. The cost is amortized over a period of two yearswhich includes five reruns. Anything after that is gravy. The gravy stains are spotted on the endlessly repeated Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear...
Vance Bourjaily can be a very good writer. See, for example, the best parts of The Man Who Knew Kennedy, The Hound of Earth or even his first book, The End of My Life, a work that helped rank him up with the Capotes and the Mailers after World...
...riots, British Intelligence decides to send an investigator, boozy, erratic Captain Connor (Brian Keith). Between drinks, the captain interprets the unrest as a diversionary tactic. There must be something deeper underfoot, he decides -something like a tunnel. From that moment, The McKenzie Break becomes a lethal contest of Irish hound and German hares led by the glittering Übermensch, Kapitan Schluetter (Helmut Griem...
Often, Joyce Carol Oates' creations suggest 19th century romantic novels: a Tolstoy heroine tuned to the breaking point over the frets of love, a Dostoevsky soul glutton, a Stendhal glory hound. The settings, however, are strictly 20th century American, illuminated by sheets of cold neon. Urban infestations where "taxes are rising and the tax base is falling," suburbs that miraculously exist for hours without the visible presence of human life, transitional neighborhoods where elderly holdouts keep their white elephants alive by secretly feeding them boarders...
...moral aura around country music becomes clearest in its reaction to rock-n-roll. Until Elvis, white musicians came to the Grand Ol Opry (a converted church still using the original pews) in Nashville to learn country music's own particular styles and techniques. But with Hound Dawg, using borrowed blues lyrics and Elvis's own brand of hard twang country steel guitar, all the walls between black and white music collapsed...