Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...man is typing at great speed. Sykes never does find his own feet, but at a party one day he confides his loss to an editor, who signs him to a three-book contract. The surrogate feet become television celebrities, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in the movie version of Sykes' life, and he goes off to make a television commercial for corn plasters...
There he meets Alexander Solzhenitsyn, another celebrity, who is making a commercial for Russian dressing in spray cans. The man's typescript concludes: "That is what the world is like...
...that cost more than the house he grew up in, $5,900. When Baker expresses pain, it tends to be with only the parody of a whimper, as in a 1977 column he titled "A Taxpayer's Prayer": "O mighty Internal Revenue, who turneth the labor of man to ashes, we thank thee for the multitude of thy forms which thou has set before us and for the infinite confusion of thy commandments which multiplieth the fortunes of lawyer and accountant alike ... Grant that this sacrifice not be found insufficient unto thy auditor...
Home Again was actually about a young man who goes out in the world to seek his fortune, gets married, has kids, moves to the suburbs, etc., etc. It foundered expensively in Toronto and was mercy-killed in April, just before its scheduled Broadway opening. The experience is instructive, "like being lost in a bog," Baker says. "I saw other musicals last year and sometimes asked myself, 'Didn't the producers and directors know they were awful?' I answered that question: 'No, you don't know.' I still think we folded the makings of a good show...
...lean (172 Ibs.) and long (6 ft. 2 in.), although when he was encountered in his Nantucket backyard he was crouching on a brick wall, pulling an anarchy of weeds from between the cracks and muttering at the lawn's first dandelions, the very embodiment of compulsive suburban man. He has a full shock of sandy gray hair, bushy eyebrows of a color that somebody with a window dresser's vocabulary once described as "ginger," and a face easefully lined, like the leather seats of an old Jaguar. Friends say that women tremble in his presence. E.P. Dutton Editor...