Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sklar: I think that kind of enapsulating of Beckett is garbage. Beckett's world is comprchensive and everyone I've read, really, except a tiny little article by Alain Robbe-Grillet, everyone tries to take a slice of the pic and say. "this is Beckett." Ruby Kahn interprets Endgame from a religious point of view, somebody clse says it takes place inside a womb, another says it's the beginning. I find myself enraged cach time I see one of these interpretations as a sort of umbrella that it has to go under...
...This is a slice of a letter that I received, explaining why Marlene can't find out her new telephone number: "Marlene has not had her phone number changed. The phone company has changed it for some reason and won't tell her what it's changed to, since they claim that it's an unlisted number. When I left she was still trying to get it all straightened...
...Europe's gamblingest nation, and legalized betting may be the country's largest industry. Britain's 16,000 betting shops, 1,200 casinos and 2,000 bingo clubs employ 100,000 people and account for an estimated yearly turnover of $5 billion. The government's slice is nearly $250 million...
...Fair Slice of the Pie. Rubenstein is assistant director of the Adlai Stevenson Institute and a consultant to the former National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He is aware that the U.S. has been a self-changing society. His conclusion is that Americans will continue to suffer violence until those in power can grant to others what they have in the past violently demanded for themselves: a fully fair slice of the pie or an independent share of the territory. The book, moreover, offers a sensible corrective to the myopic and apocalyptic view adopted by many Americans...
...Singer pushed his coffee closer to him. "No no, I like to talk and cat," he protested. "The food tastes better when you talk." Mrs. Singer tried to interest me in some toast with strawberry jam. I wasn't hungry, so she spread the jam thickly on a half-slice of toast and gave it to her husband...