Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other. Last summer they were 28 strong in Montana until someone complimented Tom on his "commune." He cleared the place out. Unsurprisingly, he can work anywhere and enjoy it. "I've made writers I know admit two things: how much they really love writing and what they owe Hemingway. I laugh when I hear one more guy say he owes everything to Ezra Pound." McGuane reveres genius. He winces when recalling that a friend told him that Faulkner had bad taste in furniture...
Have you thought about getting in on the p.r. thing yourself? Like a personal-appearance tour-major cities only? I know it's not the sort of thing you're into, and you hardly owe it to Universal. After all, they got the story rights for nothing. But you're hot now, and you're going to get hotter. Like the studio told us: "Clint Eastwood does it -why can't he?" At least you ought to get yourself solid agency representation. You need somebody in your corner who knows the business. Just keep...
...succeeded in getting IRS to audit the 1970 tax return of Robert Greene, a Newsday editor who investigated the business dealings of Nixon friends Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo and George Smathers. Greene said that the audit cost him $100 in accounting fees, but the review showed "I did not owe them a nickel...
Considering the continent's potentially divisive factors-thousands of tribes to which most Africans owe their first allegiance, lack of a common language or religion, the wild variety of governmental patterns that developed after liberation from colonial status -the mere fact that the O.A.U. has remained in existence for ten years is a tribute to African tenacity. Dedicated to unity, the organization has insisted on consensus. Given the size of its membership, this rule hurts its effectiveness...
...American people should now realize to whom they owe a debt of gratitude for whatever morality is left in official life. If the press ever allows itself to be stifled by a cunning President or his overzealous staff, we, the people, will be the only ones to suffer...