Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formerly Vice President of the United States," says the dust jacket on The Canfield Decision, offering the most succinct description possible of the novel's author. And he was formerly the nattering nemesis of network television as well. Now neither, Spiro Agnew has been all but inescapable in TV studios lately as he tapes interviews with Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas -not as an erstwhile politician, but as a self-promoter of his book about a liberal-leaning Vice President with eyes for the top job. "The real driving need to write The Canfield Decision was making...
...defacing the beautiful new stadium! Stop it; do you hear!" Pat Cunningham scurried into the V.I.P. entrance to the ballpark. The woman in the pantsuit began to demand that her husband do something about the vandals, whose activity grew more impassioned. Her husband shrugged his shoulders, and as his jacket lifted with his body a revolver showed itself on his hip. "What could I do?" he asked...
...bunch of Loebies who talked about past glories and other dramatic doings, O'Brien showed himself to be an Irishman with many voices, but at the other end of the table we told Jesus Christ jokes. It got time to leave, and I lent my roommate my tuxedo jacket so he could go to the Porcellian Club, and I skipped home just in my suspenders...
...next to Aristotle and Emerson, and at first this seems to be somebody's ghastly, naive mistake. L. Rust Hills is a writer of witty essays in Playboy and Esquire magazines on the foibles and disorders of modern life. His publishers try to give the impression on the dust jacket that Hills is having a bit of a joke here with his talk of "Moral Virtue," the kind of joke you tell with plenty of broad winks and an occasional leer. It's just as well for them--who, these days, is going to buy a hortatory treatise on ethics...
...value of contacts and details. It was not uncommon to find Susann at a distributor's warehouse greeting the truck drivers who would deliver her books to the store. In fact, the Mansfields practically wrote the book on modern literary promotion. The color of a Susann dust jacket was carefully chosen for television appeal. Once on, Jackie, who died in 1974, quickly realized what many touring novelists have yet to accept: talk-show hosts rarely want to talk about a novel as a work of fiction. They want gossip, one-liners, jokes and, above all, a hot subject...