Word: book
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strips of celluloid that promise eternal life. Hollywood embalms desire. Hollywood is a necropolis lined with deities made to appear more beautiful and menacing than they really are. Hollywood, In short, is a good read, even when encountered in Moviola, an overwrought, eulogistic novel about the film business. The book is a greenhorn-to-mogul saga with cameo performances by great stars of the distant and recent past. There is even a bit part for Thomas Alva Edison, without whose inventive genius...
...entrepreneurial brains are provided by BJ. Farber, a fictional composite of those remarkable immigrants who parlayed dry-goods stores, nickelodeons and theater chains into movie fiefs. They are here too: Goldwyn, Mayer, Zukor, et al. Farber is a lovable old shark. The book's unlovable shark is Hareem Adani, a New York-based conglomerate chief out to add Farber Films to his corporate shell collection...
...Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck...
...back in 1961, young Jim Gabler came home from high school in Hawkins, Texas, and told his parents that he was bothered by his history textbook. When his father, Mel, read the book, Our Nation's Story, he was more than bothered; he was outraged. In a chapter on the U.S. Constitution, the book puffed up the powers of the Federal Government but minimized states' rights. Recalls Gabler: "It was teaching that Washington has complete dictatorial power...
...impact in Texas, where schools have tossed out a number of new dictionaries that included terms like "slut," "queer" and "bed, verb transitive." Their objections to a number of health and government texts aroused elected officials on the Texas Board of Education, who last month dropped five of ten books that the Gablers had opposed. What Texas does affects textbook publishers nationally, because the state selects all elementary and secondary texts through a single committee. Thus, book purchases from Texas provide publishers with large textbook orders...