Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt...
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Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 American comedy-drama military science fiction film directed by George Roy Hill and produced by Paul Monash, from a screenplay...
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Kurt Vonnegut (section Slaughterhouse-Five)
breakthrough was his commercially and critically successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). Its anti-war sentiment resonated with its readers amid the...
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promotional material.)[citation needed] His other film appearances include Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973) with Beau Bridges and Janet...
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test tubes, too, with chemical reactions seething inside." As with Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and The Sirens of Titan (1959), the nature of free will is...
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films he was announced to direct including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Slaughterhouse-Five and Drood. Del Toro cited Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein illustrations...
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Eliot Rosewater (section Slaughterhouse-Five)
almost everything". Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, first published in 1969, features Eliot Rosewater in Chapter Five. Billy Pilgrim, the...
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executive who played the role of Billy Pilgrim in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five (1972). Sacks has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Relations from Harvard...
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Henry Orient (1964), Hawaii (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), Slap Shot (1977), A Little...
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a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ˈæbətwɑːr/ ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply...
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Trout, a recurring character in Vonnegut's works. In the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Tralfamadore is the home to organic beings who can see into all...
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The Great Gatsby (1974) starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)...
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1961, John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse in 1968, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in 1969, and many others. Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow...
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postmodern satire, it gave context to Vonnegut's following novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, and shared in its success. Vonnegut's fifth novel, God Bless You...
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Michael Crichton), critiquing Kurt Vonnegut's recently published Slaughterhouse-Five. He also continued to write Lange novels: Zero Cool (1969), dealt...
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characters in Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Slaughterhouse-Five, while in others, such as Jailbird and Timequake, Trout is an active...
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Vonnegut's novels and stories, including Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and the stories "Deer in the Works", "Poor Little Rich Town", and...
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culture and heritage. It is also well known for its use in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The song is often sung in a Scandinavian accent...
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Nabokov, "The Babysitter" and "The Magic Poker" by Robert Coover, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The...
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studied at Juilliard. King made his film debut in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five. In 1974, he played the role of Chico Tyrell in The Lords of Flatbush...
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Night (1961) Cat's Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions (1973) Slapstick (1976) Jailbird (1979)...
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Kurt Vonnegut, for example, in his non-linear narratives such as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle makes frequent use of motif to connect different...
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who was known for Moby Dick (1956), Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). Ledebur was born in Nisko, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Poland)...
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Night (1961) Cat's Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions (1973) Slapstick (1976) Jailbird (1979)...
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Look up slaughterhouse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A slaughterhouse is a facility where animals are killed. Slaughterhouse may also refer to: Slaughterhouse...
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prison. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The title of the book comes from a passage in Goethe's Faust, where...
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Kurt Vonnegut's experiences in the bombing of Dresden and his book Slaughterhouse-Five. A character named Joey Heller is also mentioned who, like the author...
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major screen role, Conway portrayed Roland Weary in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five, based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. Among other film roles, Conway...
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actress Montana Wildhack in the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). Perrine was photographed nude for a pictorial layout in the...
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mostly women and children died. American author Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five is loosely based on his first-hand experience of the raid as a prisoner...
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