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CALL ME KILGORE. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- Kurt Vonnegut created me. My full name is Kilgore Trout and I'm the author of over 100 novels and 2000 short stories; all science fiction, all unheard of. I often had strong intimations that I was merely the creation of another human being; a particularly sadistic fellow who wanted only to write about somebody who suffers all the time. I was never sure of this idea until I met him in his last novel, Breakfast of Champions. Vonnegut wrote himself into this book and approached...
...pressure built up, Nixon's adamant refusal to let any of his aides testify before Ervin's committee became untenable. Hardly a legal scholar could be found to support this unheard-of claim of unqualified Executive privilege. Republican Senators began protesting just as vigorously as Nixon's Democratic critics. The President's brief and bland denials of White House involvement no longer satisfied anyone...
...their content, these films are conceived as instruments of struggle against the bourgeoisie and revisionism, against imperialism and social imperialism, with the theoretical help of marxist-leninism and the thought of mao. But there is also at stake something new, something previously unheard of in cinema, and in this new content, we cannot be satisfied with a worn-out form. These films also struggle, ideologically, against the passivity of the spectator, as Brecht struggled in his time: because this passivity is not an aesthetic necessity as some people would have us believe (a spectator is always a spectator...
...only stiff manifestos, enigmatic drivel, sentimental nonsense, or primal screams. What I do mind is a person who can use her connections to rip off the public and then pose as a liberator. Few other people could foist this embarrassment upon an audience, while far more talented people go unheard...
...Barnum didn't die and it was revived in 1920 with a bigger budget--$12,000--unheard of until that time. The next production, Westward Ho! tipped the scales at $16,000, although it ended up several hundred dollars in the red due to extravagance and poor management. Since then the Pudding shows have grown larger and more expensive. This year's Bewitched Bayou is budgeted at a healthy...