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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtually every Communist country in Europe, a grandmother goes to the police station in Pinsk and requests permission to visit her sister in The Bronx. The policeman just shakes his head. The old lady then pulls out of her string shopping bag the tattered pages from Pravda reproducing the text of the Helsinki agreement. "It says here, young man, on page 3, section A-Contacts and Regular Meetings on the Basis of Family Ties-that I can go, and it's signed by Comrade Brezhnev!" Replies the policeman: "Babushka, this is Pinsk, not Helsinki...
After the successful use of such new wonder drugs as penicillin during World War II, medical research rode forward on a wave of federal funding. Sooner or later it was going to track down God, dissect him, and put a schematic of His vitals in a special anatomy text appendix. God seems to have fled the scene, though--the Great Dissection never came...
...back. Yet the old Times found room for significant documentation that no longer interests the New New York Times. Since the Times still documents more thoroughly than any other newspaper, editors can't be blamed for wanting to lay some of the burden down-like the full text of treaties, which possibly interested 5% of the readers. But the general reader now misses valuable documentation that he might be happy to read. The Times merely excerpted Saul Bellow's Nobel acceptance speech. It played as the day's most important story the Supreme Court decision...
...part justifiable license with the material. Several subplots and some vivid characters have been eliminated entirely. Some important new scenes have been added-Glencora and Plantagenet are already married, for example, when Trollope begins the Palliser novels-and dialogue has been modernized. "I could seldom transcribe Trollope's text for more than two speeches at a time," says Raven. "I had to invent and deploy my own 'Trollopese...
...LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. But he realized in the late '60s that the big picture magazines were failing, "so I got into producing books and movies." Among his projects: the bestselling Marilyn, a collection of over 100 pictures of Marilyn Monroe by 24 top photographers, with text by Norman Mailer, and the movie The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Nonetheless, he wants to be considered as "an investigative journalist and not a wheeler-dealer or an entrepreneur or even a hardened hustler...