Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"). "Sandy gave a special dimension to the picture," says Bel Kaufman, author of the grab-bag epistolary novel on which the film is more or less based. "She's a much more vulnerable and sensitive person than the character in the book...
Grand Coulee. In Cuba, on the contract that Kaiser always maintained had established his future, his company laid 200 miles of road and built 500 bridges in 41 years instead of the scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to build Hoover Dam in four years instead of six. The syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly...
...weirdest novel since John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy, British historian and playwright Andrew Sinclair mounts a time machine and takes a wild ride through history...
...Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (while waiting in North Boston to start his famous ride, he realized that he'd forgotten his spurs, sent his dog home with a note asking that they be brought to him), a year later wrote Johnny Tremain, a historical novel aimed at teen-agers but flavorful enough for adults; of rheumatic heart disease; in Worcester, Mass...
Thanks to a leering title, bales of advance ballyhoo and the promise that it would expose the really "in" people in swinging London, this novel about a public relations man with an identity problem seems headed for bestsellerdom. A first printing of 40,000 copies has been ordered, the Literary Guild has snatched it up, paperback rights have been sold for six figures, and Paramount plans to film it. But nothing swings all that much in the book...