Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Busted Flush and Miss Agnes, the elderly "hand-hewn" Rolls-Royce pickup truck - to his old pal and counselor, Meyer, a famed economist who inhabits the next-door houseboat, John Maynard Keynes. The salvager plucks his life savings of $9,300 from a cache and becomes Tom McGraw, a retired fisherman. Following a ritual clue Gretel had given him a few days before dying, he heads for northern California, in search of a fictitious missing daughter who has supposedly disappeared in the moil of a fanatical religious commune. Its remaining inhabitants, when he finds them, are no Moonies. Armed...
...McGee-McGraw stumbles into the camp and is immediately captured. After being forced to murder one of the terrorist group, he is tentatively accepted by the crazies, nine distinctly characterized men and women who have come to mania from all over the map. After a harrowing indoctrination, "Dads," as the kids call him, finds out that they have blown his cover. He has no choice but to blast his way out, killing all his captors-and nearly blowing his mind. It is the most intense and savage narrative that MacDonald has ever written. As for McGee, he recovers in time...
...Crimson Key shows Love Story every year, so that you can ogle the Harvard settings and release all that pent-up aggression by jeering at former Yale professor Erich Segal's heart-burning drivel. You can also think about the decay of Ali McGraw's and Ryan O'Neal's careers since then--proof, I guess, that there is a God. Last year, as Ryan whined, "Love--(beat)--means never having to say you're sorry," the film got caught in the projector and a big brown blotch quickly bubbled over his face, smote, perhaps, by that great Film Critic...
...thought McGraw Hill was a good place to lodge DRI because we cannot fully capitalize on what we develop and they can," Eckstein said yesterday. "We can do more with our technology within McGraw-Hill than alone," Eckstein, head professor in Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," said...
Eckstein said McGraw-Hill's style of management would let DRI maintain its independence and develop. "McGraw-Hill, for instance, owns Business Week but they don't tell them what to print--and they won't tell DRI what to forecast about the economy," Eckstein said yesterday...