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...instead of just sitting and watching the show, the audience must help in the creative process on stage. "Okay," someone occasionally says to the audience, "now we're gonna play a game." ; And then something like: "I need you to name for me three household appliances...
...know, the computer is sweeping every facet of academic, business, and daily life under its domain. Every firm, university, and household which turns so much as an eye to the future is currently investing a substantial portion of its budget to the acquisition, augmentation, or maintenance of a computer system. Universities are leading the charge, some attempting to provide every dormitory room with a terminal, others increasing fundraising and endowments for improvement of computer facilities...
...maids and gardeners no longer have to take Berlitz lessons to communicate with them. Tell a Maid and Tell a Gardener (published by Tell-a-Maid, $2.50 each), devised by Linda Wolf, a Beverly Hills language teacher, consist of detailed checklists of chores in Spanish and English, terms for household and garden utensils and multicolored pages of cutout cards with instructions in both languages, like "Take out the trash" and "Polish the silver." The books, available at supermarket and pharmacy checkout counters, have drawn fire from some Hispanic organizations that regard them as racist and demeaning, but have been defended...
...easy being Norman Mailer. What other writer would have to soft-pedal a birthday? He braces for the approach of his publication dates, having a pretty fair idea of how the critical articles in response will be organized: "The standard joke of this household is, 'On what page do they get to the review [see box]?' In other words, the life always comes first...
...addition to $1.4 million from the publisher, it has pulled in some $700,000 in foreign and subsidiary rights. Mailer's other books still earn royalties, and he commands up to $15,000 for a lecture. Yet he remains sensitive to the specter of debt. The Mailer household is economically...