Word: parte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John F, Leavitt, red and white, constructed from the oak and pine of the Maine forest, is the fulfillment of Ackerman's dream, but he resents that description. The very word suggests impracticality, something Ackerman wants no part of. "Would it seem like a dream to you if you bought a new truck?" he asks. Is he the forerunner, the leader in something new, something that could become a trend? "Nah," he sneers in a New Hampshire twang. "If a lot more schooners are built, it will be because a lot of people independently came by the same conclusion...
...down payment, Richie must go to the Mafia, where he is quickly impaled on the meat hooks of 243-lb. Albert ("King Kong") Karpstein, a.k.a. The Animal, a.k.a. Milky, for his diet of Milky Way chocolate bars. A part-time enforcer for Joe Hobo, a.k.a. Joe Hoboken, a.k.a. Joseph lacovelli, the simian Karpstein is a semidemented Jew whose appeal to his Italian bosses lies in the imagination and diligence he brings to his work. He would as soon see his creditors default as pay, for the added diversion of carving them up. But Milky is also an independent Shylock...
...euphoria, Richie acquires a one-seventh part of an expensive call girl and recovers some of the old Giants swagger. Inevitably his deal with the city dies, and Richie faces a similar fate at the hands of King Kong. Flynn is saved temporarily because of a minor Mafia dispute. A more permanent salvation is offered by the FBI and an ambitious new special prosecutor, Hamilton Wainwright IV, who has vowed to rip out the "cancer" of organized crime. They want Richie to sing...
...lore has begun to seem downright voracious-and is being fed as though it might be insatiable. Bantam Books, for instance, has put out 31 nonfiction books about the war in the past 18 months, 15 of them at a single pop last March, and all as part of an ambitious plan to put both new and old accounts of the war on the racks continually and indefinitely. Reflecting the same market mood, subscriptions to TIME-LIFE Books' series of 20 World War II volumes have passed 780,000 and are still coming in. Meanwhile, a mere list...
...world of print provides only part of the evidence of sharpening interest in the war. Novels such as The Boys from Brazil, The Eagle Has Landed and Soldier of Orange have found their way into the movies, and Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is about to-even as he puts together yet another World War II saga. If World War II films have naturally been less numerous than books, they have also-ever since George C. Scott swaggered across the screen in Patton in 1970-tended to be more spectacular and ambitious. TV is cluttered with World...