Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kinds of deadpan golden nuggets of humor--greasy, love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph's even-tempered, lively direction raise the film above good of boy mediocrity...
SCHEMING, CHEATING lawyers, sleazy agents, and proudly ruthless promoters are responsible for the majority of Doc's problems and much of the dizziness of the script. When the narrative actually sets off. Doc has abandoned touring and Blackie to seek greater song-writing profits. But stuck in considerable debt and creatively bankrupt--he has unwittingly sold the rights to his songs--Doc must adopt a tough counter-strategy against the unsavory tactics of Nashville music manager Rodeo Rocky (Richard Sarafian). After an implausibly easy arson job, he takes off to Austin to form his own record label and write songs...
Adler's one reservation about his latest work is that it presents only ten major mistakes. There are, he says, at least 18. But Adler wants to reach a mass audience, and 18 mistakes would have taken up too many pages. Says he: "I try to write a 200-page book that costs about $12. I hate $18 books." Adler knows that with such an approach he can expect to be roundly ignored in philosophical journals, an expectation that is dryly confirmed by Kenneth Seeskin, philosophy chairman at Northwestern. Says Seeskin: "Professional philosophers as a rule don't read Adler...
John Hersey, 70, is back home on Martha's Vineyard after wintering in Key West. But his attention is already turning westward, across Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, over the American landmass, toward the Pacific and beyond. The New Yorker once again has asked him to visit and write about Hiroshima, 40 years after the city was destroyed by a single bomb and 39 years after Hersey marked the first anniversary of atomic warfare with the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II. Hiroshima filled the magazine's entire August 31, 1946, issue. Published...
...trade Government securities and other investments. For every dollar the partners put in, they took what they thought were legitimate tax deductions ranging from $4 to $10. The rationale for the deductions was that the partnerships suffered huge losses in their securities deals, which are perfectly legal tax write- offs. Government attorneys charge, however, that many of those transactions never took place, and that the losses occurred only on paper...