Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two volumes is added evidence that Beckett is still doing more than breathing. In fact, Beckett himself has set down a fictional prophecy that now seems closer to the mark. In Malone Dies, the narrator tries to arrange things so that his story, the stub of the pencil with which he writes it, and his life will all end at the same moment. It is hard to believe that Beckett will stop writing until he has to. He has made that bur den, after all, his despair and triumph...
...Allman, Muhammad Ali, Paul Newman. At a State Department tea for Mexican First Lady Carmen de Lopez Portillo (a guest of Rosalynn, who had attended the López Portillo inauguration last December), Shirley MacLaine twitted an old friend. Said Shirley to Henry Kissinger as he jokingly tried to pencil her into his little black book: "I talked to you before you became powerful. That's when I dropped...
Remember--This is for real. Take a few minutes and cruise on in. Twenty to 30 correct answers will probably put you at the head of the class. So get the lead out [a pencil] and sit down. This is your life...
Felker is an idea editor, not a pencil editor. He has had remarkably accurate antennae for coming fashions -and a knack for catchy headlines that are often better than the articles and make each fad seem momentous. The list of writers for whom he has provided a springboard is also impressive. As features editor of Esquire from 1957 to 1962, he helped steer Norman Mailer into reportage and published some of the first so-called New Jourrialists, most notably Tom Wolfe. On the old New York Herald Tribune, where he edited the Sunday magazine that was to be reincarnated...
...called him 'Hot'-he was always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter...