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...life--which comprise about a third of the film, in addition to actual television excerpts and interviews with Kerouac's friends--resemble film clippings from Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of. These short pieces of film move slowly, the actor bears no resemblance to Jack Kerouac, and the scenes contain an inanity that we soon learn is unintentional. They seem like video filler for a predominantly oral presentation...
...brief era of good feeling that ensued lasted less than a day. Just before the start of a 7:30 meeting the following morning, Jobs handed Sculley a letter stating that several Apple employees were leaving to work for his new company. Apple executives could not contain their ire, shouting "liar" and "deceitful" during the meeting. The outcry convinced Jobs that he could no longer stay at the company...
...grapplings with beauty become fairly obscure among Pete's serious-if-weird musings on God, alcohol and drug abuse, getting laid, and being famous, which contain not a trace of the attractive, let alone the beautiful...
...book does contain some incisive clues about why Pete adopts his pseudo-profound attitude. His bouts with booze and drugs--briefly noted in these stories--have simultaneously weakened him and awakened him to all that he couldn't notice while his senses were dulled...
...submarine standards of yore, life aboard the Jackson borders on easy duty. The $2 billion Tridents contain the first flush toilets in an underwater craft, and the first stairs. The air is kept at a constant 72 degrees and circulates rapidly enough to make smoking permissible. Instead of being assigned to "hot racks," or beds that rotate among off-duty personnel, each crew member has his own bunk, equipped with stereo headphones. Food is copious, though overindulgence is rarely a problem. As one crew member explained, "We have to remember that hatches out of this place are only 24 inches...