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...crew worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and they were paid generously, averaging about $1,350 a month; Rodriguez managed to save enough during the operation to open his own haircutting shop near Sacramento. There were some perks too: menus featured filet mignon, roasts and lobster tails, while the entertainment included television shows and movies on video cassettes (most popular flick: Deep Throat...
...called it, the networks spent the evening in furious competition, playing with gusto the game they had vowed not to engage in this outing. After ABC and NBC guessed wrong in pronouncing Morris Udall the victor of last April's Wisconsin primary (Carter came from behind during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed to thwart competitiveness. When Sheehan...
With selections drawn from fairly regular intervals over these years, this book uncovers Beckett's development from a crisp but somewhat pedantic short-fiction writer ("Dante and the Lobster"), through his experimentation with the novel form (large sections of Molloy and The Unnamable), and finally into the most popularly successful phase of his art, drama (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape...
Untold fortunes are dribbled away on fringe gimmickry. Samples: Kingaroo Practice Pouches that carry eight tennis balls at the player's waist; Volley-Hi, the taller tennis-ball basket stand; GRABIT, a tiny claw set on the racquet butt for picking up single balls without bending; Lobster, one of the many mechanical tennis partners able to shoot practice balls at you every 3% seconds. Stores bulge with any or all of the several hundred tennis books now in print. (Sample title: How to Increase Your Net Value). Alluring fashion ads offer raiment ranging from the new see-through tennis dresses...
...article of faith among television people that what the medium does best is cover actuality live, from beginning to end. Sometimes, though, the results are not quite what was planned. The Public Broadcasting Service's soup-to-nuts (or, more accurately, lobster-to-mints) coverage of last week's White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth allowed the average American a singular opportunity to feel for himself the exquisite pain of the pointless state occasion, an agony of boredom heretofore reserved for the powerful and the well born. There was perhaps something salutary about the 4½ -hour experience...