Quinn throws himself into the role of the vain, heavy-drinking bully with gusto[…]. He's precisely the kind of ugly American people cringe upon meeting—loud, demanding and arrogant, a bottle of Scotch never far from his elbow.

Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.

In January 1973, Newsweek magazine reported an earthquake somewhere in the world , and added: It was not a superquake as earth tremors go.

Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.