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...Dime Notebook...
...Turner went on to found such companies as Fashcot, which sells wigs, Emcot, which makes pink and yellow colored fur coats, and Transcot, a trucking firm. One of his companies sells a success-motivation course called "Dare to Be Great," which consists of a recorder with cassettes and a notebook crammed with such power-releasing hints as "Develop a Positive Mental Attitude" and "Remember Everybody's Name." Complaints about the course, which costs up to $5,000 to complete, have brought legal actions in eight states. In Davidson County, Tenn., five "Dare to Be Great" salesmen were arrested...
...them off. They are sure that he has their rooms bugged, so he can steal all their ideas, pervert them, copyright them, and claim them as his own. (At one point we actually see Larry the Dwarf, disguised as Zappa, transcribing a tape of the band into a music notebook and then perverting it by pouring coffee all over the page and hitting it with a blunt object.) The band is afraid that Zappa is watching everything they are doing and that he will make them repeat it in the movie. Yet at other times they complain to the audience...
...George Jackson's death did eventually evoke a response. The response did not come in Watts, but at Attica. There, men knew the pressures that had been applied to break Jackson, for they also lived with them. There, there was a man--perhaps several--who had written in his notebook the lines from Claude McKay's poem quoted above...
...that complacent horde of pigeonholers, polltakers, politicians, consumer experts and scholars who seem bent on reducing vast groups of individual Americans to some neatly labeled lowest common denominator of fear, status, greed or need. Coles, after all, is a Harvard psychiatrist. He has been seen in the company of notebook and tape recorder. For more than a decade he has studied and written voluminously about troubled children, blacks, migrant workers-all subjects that are now ritually lamented in near-faceless collectivity as "problems...