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MOST OF THE WRITERS interviewed are more than willing to deliver their opinions and observations on politics, the state of the world, life, death, and above all, writing. Rex Stout has no trouble dashing off a new Nero Wolfe every 39 days, and Isaac Asimov writes books the way most people sneeze. But the other authors find writing a painful process, especially as they grow older and fear losing their inspiration and energy. "The metronomic quality of a columnist's life is like Chinese water torture," says an unusually morose Russell Baker. "Wednesday Thursday Sunday, Wednesday Thursday Sunday. That stretches...
...minimum, leaving description at the barest essentials and letting his subjects speak for themselves. Many of the conversations are really just strings of quotations, supplemented only by some remarkably vivid photographs by Jill Krementz. This approach usually proves successful, thanks to the caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam Chomsky as a linguist--is downright boring, an object lesson in how words...
...Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico will soon give this process its first test. If it works, says Robert Rex, president of Republic Geothermal Inc., "the energy could provide all the additional power the nation will require until thermonuclear fusion and solar sources are developed." But until the "dry rock" technique is shown to be feasible, geothermal power seems bound to remain only a marginal, supplemental answer to U.S. energy problems...
...book has been touted by showbiz types like Actor Anthony Perkins, Columnist Rex Reed and Playwright Neil Simon (if he's gloomy, he says, he downs it twice a day like a pill, with a glass of water). To be sure, some of these enthusiasts whose advertised endorsements boosted the book's sales happen to be patients of Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz-the husband-and-wife team who wrote the book with the help of a friend, Jean Owen. But the bestseller obviously has other less prejudiced fans as well. "It seems like something a good friend...
...letter was signed Cannabis Rex for the Broward Marijuana Dealers Association. Such charity by the counterculture set is not new (TIME, Sept. 17), but one could wonder at the reaction in the upper councils of the association when the organization learns what Jody Dietrich hopes to grow up to be: a policeman...