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Agreed, but sometimes it can't be all good either. During the filming in Hawaii of Irwin Allen's ultimate disaster movie, The Day the World Ended, with Newman and William Hoiden, Bisset's reel-life idyl was interrupted by real-life meteorological aberrations. Not only were there earthquakes, but the usually sun-washed Kona coast was lashed by heavy rains that set back filming and added another $2 million to the $20 million budgeted. Bisset and Newman, during one interruption in the shooting, were caught by photographers making comparisons that were more odd than odious...
Though newer sports gained popularity, baseball remained the preference of succeeding generations of writers, including Bernard Malamud, Irwin Shaw, Mark Harris and Philip Roth. The reason seems clear. Baseball is the most solitary of team endeavors. Nobody blocks for the batter or sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing...
...share that adulation, for Einstein was the most eminent among them in this century and, in the eyes of some, the greatest scientist of all time. Says Nobel Laureate I.I. Rabi: "There are few ideas in contemporary physics that did not grow out of his work." Adds M.I.T.'s Irwin Shapiro: "He makes me proud to call myself a physicist...
Such pressure, however, is likely to stir up the articulate and politically powerful pro-Israeli lobby. While American Jewish leaders remain almost unanimously grateful to Carter for his achievements at Camp David, most are becoming increasingly angry with what they feel is his recent pro-Sadat tilt. Said Irwin Goldenberg, president of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation-Council: "Carter is making out Begin to be the obstacle. That's not right or fair." Added Hyman Bookbinder, Washington lobbyist for the American Jewish Committee: "It was a mistake for Carter to scold Israel. We request that our Administration show some patience...
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm ·Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee ·Short Stories, Irwin Shaw ·Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ·The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever ·The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk