Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zebra isn't all that bad. It has the potential for being a good picture, but hanging over it are the ghosts of rewrite, of producer Martin Ransohoff whittling away at anything individual, leaving a gutless synthetic: sure-fire product at the expense of originality. It will make a lot of money...
...party where someone told him he ought to write another novel. So they went into the next room where he just verbally pieced together this book from the things that were around in his mind. It's really amazing, but it makes you feel a lot better that Vonnegut always thought of it as a whole...
...funny. When Malachi Constant's father found he couldn't buy the Mona Lisa, he debased her by using her in an advertising campaign for suppositories; the whole idea is funny because we know it could happen, and it's true that that is about the way a lot of people alive today think...
...allied bombers came over with a huge incendiary bomb attack that started a fire storm which killed 135,000 people. Vonnegut survived because he was in a cool meatlocker under a slaughterhouse. It all provides the base for his war book; it also is probably the basis of a lot of his other thoughts...
Nixon's worst selection was Maurice Stans for Secretary of Commerce. An Old-Guard Republican whose only virtue was that he raised a lot of money for Nixon's campaign, Stans is supposed to lead the effort to involve business in the ghetto. Almost as bad is Walter Hickel, Secretary of Interior, whose business-development mind will find it hard to understand why conservationists are interested in natural resources. Clifford Hardin, Secretary of Agriculture, evidently does not have any policy for farmers, but his most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South...