Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flurry of articles in magazines -from the solemn New Republic to the impetuous New Times, from the Saturday Evening Post to Penthouse-criticize the commission and question its conclusion that the murder was committed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting "alone." A paperback published this week, "They 've Killed the President!" by Robert Sam Anson, suggests that Kennedy was the victim of a CIA-Mafia conspiracy. The first printing: 250,000 copies. Television and radio talk shows focus on the Warren Report-and question it. Shown three times on ABC-TV, the shocking color movie of the shooting taken...
...into the Sahara in a great human flood a half-mile abreast, the marchers soon narrowed into a column eight to ten people wide and began raggedly shuffling down the single-lane asphalt road in the direction of Aaiūn, Sahara's capital. A huge paratrooper distributed paperback copies of the Koran, which the marchers waved as they chanted, "Allah akbar [God is great]," "The Sahara is Moroccan," "Long live King Hassan...
...beginning was an obscure soft-core paperback original to which no one paid special heed. Then came the Patty Hearst kidnaping, and someone noticed that cheap fiction seemed to predict this sensational crime in detail, even including the plot twist that had the victim eventually embrace the captors' ideology. Parallels continue to turn up: recent reports indicate that Hearst surrendered to revolutionary sexuality even before succumbing to revolutionary politics-just as Abduction s heroine...
...paperback. "Money," said Gertrude Stein, "is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money." Stein, who did not have much to say about roses either, apparently meant that money-like gravity and magnetism-is so pervasive and anonymous that it needs no human inferences. Does a fish talk about water...
Restless Group. A new paperback edition of The Recognitions was published last year by Avon ($2.95), but as Gaddis notes, "For some strange reason, my royalties for the book have always been about $100 a year." During those years he has earned his living as a freelance, writing speeches for top corporate executives, scripts for industrial films, public relations for a drug company. He maintains his headquarters in a small Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River in a village north of New York City. Gaddis has two grown children from a previous marriage...