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...flipped the puck past me into the open net. And every shot was put into the same corner. The fans roared, and behind me, over the rail of the cage I could see the Master grinning like a fiend flicking the red light on and off like a madman. I woke up sweating...
...Alfred Jarry, the French madman, once said that "If we must have murders, it's better that they should be works of art." It may be suspected from the preceding observations that I'm subscribing to a similar ethos by suggesting that if we must eat awful food, it should be artfully awful food and served in artful surroundings. To escape this charge gracefully. I must simply say that it's a start in learning to respect food and our own bodies by respecting where we eat it. We forget that food comes mostly from the earth, from natural life...
...underground. The screenplay is the work of Terry Southern (again), who also acted as a coproducer, Scenarist Dennis McGuire and Director Aram Avakian. The three have taken John Earth's trim, controlled novel about a nervous breakdown in the groves of academe and reduced it to a madman's drool...
Down at the far end. Team Number Three. Andy Mectoff and Helen Snively, entered as the Radcliffe team. Andy is devouring pancakes like a madman: he has several empty plates in front...
...problem: where to roost? The Jewish life of his Chicago boyhood? Wonderful! A spell as a thief? Why not? The university? That too. The book ricochets about the Chicago of Bellow's own young manhood; but if the author has a wild yarn to tell about a madman in a lifeboat, he ships Augie out on a tanker; if Mexico appeals to author or hero, off they both...