Word: twain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wing rage in capital letters. A gossip columnist, a backroom politician, a muckraking Galahad of journalism -- he conjures up images of a fierce American brashness that are endearing and real. Also, and less successfully, he is an echo of a literary past, a Hemingway, a Hawthorne, a Melville, a Twain. This whole side of the book, from the first sentence ("Call me Smitty"), is an interesting diversion -- sometimes witty, but never very impressive, and little more than an academic exercise. What drives the narrative is an indefatigable love for baseball...
...Louis, where an elevenmile stretch of levee and flood wall was holding at week's end. Built in 1955 at a cost of $80 million, the wall has already saved the city $340 million in flood damages this year. But 6 ft. of water sloshed through Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo. Thirty thousand acres of Missouri farm land went un der water when an extensive system of dikes gave...
...entire film is an exercise in false nostalgia, the good life of a Missouri River town in the 1840s being something modern audiences don't really know anything about without they have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But, as Mark Twain also said, "that ain't no matter." What is the matter is that the good, strong stuff of the novel-Injun Joe's mysteriously sinister nature, the murder in the graveyard, Becky and Tom lost in the cave, even Huckleberry Finn's subversive restlessness-is truncated and flattened...
FRIDAY: Tom Sawyer. Twain's classic tale of boyish mischief on the Mississippi comes to television minus some of Tom's mischief and with an Ontario setting. Very Walt Disney. CH. 7. 8 p.m. Color...
...necessities? What else would you dream about after each member of your family had acquired his own single-color, single-shape Eurocar? But a lot of Europe's beaches had been acquired by holiday camps, and seaside property had become hideously expensive. If only Father had remembered Mark Twain's excellent advice on how to make money: "Buy land; they've stopped making it." Even a modest plot, bought in 1973, was worth 20 times its original price...