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...told me about a family of schizophrenics in Pennsylvania whom he visited every two weeks to refill their prescription of Thorazine, the mind-numbing drug modern psychiatrists give to people they feel would be better off not feeling. He told me that nobody had answered his knock on the front door, so he started around the house. On the side of the house in the driveway was an old Studebaker up on blocks, no wheels, two doors missing. Inside at the wheel was the father, going "vroom, vroom," beside him the mother and the youngest child, in the back seat...
...mentioned the deduction for interest on home mortgages as one that he might recommend dropping, though he lately has shied away from the subject. And he believes it is unfair to tax corporate profits and then tax the dividends paid out of those profits−so he would either knock out all taxes on dividend income or stop taxing the portion of corporate profits that is paid out in dividends to shareholders...
...Americans, who have been led to believe that crime (real or fancied) and punishment in the Soviet Union is largely a matter of the midnight knock on the door and a hasty trip to a labor camp, such cases at first glance will not seem very surprising. But in fact the U.S.S.R. has an elaborate and, on the surface, enlightened legal code that -since the days of Stalin-has customarily been followed. One of the fascinations of Courts of Terror is its depiction of a government in the tortuous process of subverting its own laws for reasons of propaganda...
This is an idea-for-idea, character-for-character, and sometimes even shot-for-shot knock-off of Jaws. The major differences are that the location has been changed from the ocean to a national forest, and the character in the title role shambles instead of swims. The original has been copied even down to minor details. Jaws Author Peter Benchley, for instance, had a cameo role in the film as a television newscaster. Here, Co-Scenarist Harvey Flaxman shows up as a reporter, pressing Hero Christopher
...Flesh may be corruptible, and Author Elkin's spendthrift talent some times threatens to knock the bottom out of the word market entirely. But The Franchiser has what few novels have any more: the ability to astonish and delight and a totally conscious hero who proves that the unaudited life is not worth living...