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...that sound consists of vibrations, Marc and Lisa play with a toy telephone made by stretching a string between two tin cans. Then the scene shifts to two cartoon characters who joke about dialing wrong numbers. To introduce gravity, 3-2-1 Contact skips the traditional account of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple and shows a Hollywood stunt man plummeting from a four-story building; sensibly, Marc refuses to follow...
...Friese '79, token: Rams, 23-2 President Jimmy Carter, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., former Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty, Isaac Asimov, Gale Sayers, Norman Mailer '43. Ronald Reagan and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) could not be reached for comment...
...Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙The Executioner's Song,Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
Many of the other arts followed patterns similar to those in film and theater: a few standout contributions in an otherwise unmemorable and/or incomprehensible decade. In literature, for example, the most notable works were written by names from the past: Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a few others. Twenty years from now, though, an historian looking back on the '70s will proably be more impressed--or depressed--by the extraordinary amount of selfhelp/how-to/me-generation literature that dominated the best-seller lists: The Joy of Sex, I'm OK, You're OK, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...
Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer: the most recent novel by America's 1978 Nobel laureate for Literature...