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INVOKING HIS typewriter as a 20th century muse, Tom Robbins launches into his third novel with the warning, "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done." Like a keypunch operator waiting for a computer to spew out solutions, Robbins must have sat hopefully in front of his Remington SL3 expecting that, if he hit a button here and there, the sophisticated machine would spit back a novel of answers. Still Life With Woodpecker does not bear...
...hopes to start work in a computer keypunch training program soon "so maybe I can get a good job and move away from here." Says she: "These apartments are ragged. They need to just tear 'em down. You can come around here at night and see all the rats. We haven't had any mailboxes the whole time I've been living here. We used to have to go to the post office to get the mail. Well, now the post office has been burned...
...constituency. The plan will surely be popular with the public, which has grown resentful of a bureaucracy that produces less while earning more money for itself. Inertia was perhaps tolerable when federal pay was not competitive with the private sector, but that is no longer the case. Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry. Average hourly wages for U.S. postal employees are one-third higher than the average for insurance and telephone companies and electric utilities...
...protofascist mob chortling encouragement at the screen when Harry lets fly, but the voice of perfectly nice people happy to see Harry do what they would all like to do?shake the System loose from its routines, pieties and general lack of responsiveness to the common needs of both keypunch operators and tough cops. One might wish that The Enforcer had the cinematic smarts imparted by Director Don Siegel to the original Dirty Harry, a tenser, tauter piece of work. But The Enforcer is fairish fun?and certainly no threat to liberal democracy. Richard Schickel
...large green-carpeted hall jammed with college students, flashing phones and clacking keypunch machines, Columbia University Student John Perrotta took the first call from Wisconsin at precisely 9:07 p.m. Perrotta pulled out a coded sheet of paper and quickly penciled in the totals: 133 votes for Gerald Ford; 83 for Ronald Reagan. He noted the call had come from Milwaukee's Fifth Congressional District and handed the sheet to a dungaree-clad coed, who took it to a bank of keypunch operators...