Over the course of the novel, Gris finds himself in possession of twelve tons of pure gold, which he tries to launder through a Swiss bank account in order to keep it all for himself ; he becomes a prisoner of two man-hating lesbians ( who end up marrying Gris after he rapes them and thereby " cures " them of their lesbianism, but not before various ingenious tortures, one of which involve a cheese grater and chili powder ); he repeatedly finds himself losing large amounts of money, becoming broke, and having to concoct wild schemes to save himself from his creditors ; he has an affair with a young nymphomaniac teenage girl whom he cannot escape ; he hires a hit man to kill Heller's fiancé, only to stumble through the affair and end up being a target for the hit man himself ; he embarks on a long cruise through the Mediterranean ( mirroring Hubbard's own voyages through the area in the 1970s ); and finally, Gris becomes the target after Heller realizes that he is behind the operation to disrupt his mission.

The idea for Catch-22 was based on Joseph Heller's personal experience in World War II.

* Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption.

Joseph Heller's absurdist novel Catch-22 is set on a U. S. Army Air Corps bomber squadron base on Pianosa during World War II, but Heller conceded that he took literary license in making Pianosa big enough for a major military complex.

Heller's bomber squadron, the 488th Bombardment Squadron, was based for a time in the Foggia Airfield Complex on the Adriatic coast.

* Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 ( 1961 ) alludes to the poem in the chapter " Havermyer ": " the open-air movie theater in which — for the daily amusement of the dying — ignorant armies clashed by night on a collapsible screen.

* According to Lionel Shriver, the character of Joel Litvinoff in Zoë Heller's 2008 novel The Believers may be modelled on Kunstler.

Fortunately, Heller's outstanding skills and abilities are reinforced by the arrival on Earth of his fiancée, the Countess Krak, and the alliance and friendship of the Mafia — specifically the Corleone family.

) Working from the basis of a resemblance to Henry Fonda, and from the thesis that people in the novel were, contrary to Heller's claims, heavily inspired by people and events from his own wartime experiences, Daniel Setzer deduces that the real world inspiration for the character of Maj. Major was Randall C. Casada, who was Heller's squadron commander when he was stationed on Corsica.

" The article goes on to say, " Of course ' Kellar ' aims to profit by the reputation that Heller left, by adopting a close imitation of Heller's name.

The film version of Zoë Heller's novel Notes on a Scandal was filmed around Archway.

The first half of the memoir focuses on Heller's childhood in Coney Island and is, in fact, as much about the place as it is about the man.

; Reilly: Julia Heller's contact on the council, who eventually is revealed to be a computer program.

In 1790, he led a detachment of the Kentucky County, Virginia militia on the disastrous Battle of Heller's Corner ( also known as Hardin's Defeat ).

However, on the facts, the disclaimer was found to be sufficient enough to discharge any duty created by Heller's actions.

Heller's island also has a small community of Italian villagers, unlike the real island.

Sometimes the title of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 ( from the title of Joseph Heller's novel ).

In 2008, the firm admitted almost two dozen partners in its London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D. C., offices from the San Francisco firm Heller Ehrman, including 27 hired after Heller's Sept. 26, 2008, announcement of dissolution.

The term originally appeared in Michael Heller's 1998 article of the same name and is the thesis of his 2008 book.

In Heller's 1998 Harvard Law Review article, he noted that after the fall of Communism, in many Eastern European cities there were a lot of open air kiosks, but also a lot of empty stores.

On March 18, 2008, SAS organized the rally in support of Dick Anthony Heller's right to keep an operable handgun for self-protection in his home subject of the United States Supreme Court hearing of DC v. Heller in Washington, DC.

The motif of bureaucratic absurdity is further explored in 1994's Closing Time, Heller's sequel to Catch-22.

Much of Heller's prose in Catch-22 is circular and repetitive, exemplifying in its form the structure of a Catch-22.

In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero.

The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World Writing as Catch-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's Mila 18.

* In Joseph Heller's book Something Happened, Bob Slocum remarks, " The Fuggers were all right as long as they stayed in Germany ; then they sent their mothers here.

Most recommended fundoplication along with Heller's myotomy is Dor's fundoplication.

The pair signed to Ruthless Records ( run by Eazy-E ) in 1992, catching the attention of Eazy-E manager Jerry Heller's nephew.

Popular restaurants included the Viennese Lantern, Tokay, Hungarian Gardens, Robert Heller's Cafe Abazzia at 2nd Avenue, Budapest and the Debrechen.

John Joseph Yossarian is a fictional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time.

First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's most successful novel, Catch-22.

Minderbinder also appears in Heller's late sequel Closing Time.

Other names seen on old maps include Caterlaugh or Caterlagh, archaic designations of County Carlow, in the days before much of the north of that county was taken into Wicklow in the early 17th century.

Many of the more prominent individual stars were also given names, particularly with Arabic or Latin designations.

Gregory Zinoviev was known in early life under the names of Apfelbaum or Radomyslovsky and later adopted several designations, such as Shatski, Grigoriev, Grigori and Zinoviev, by the two last of which he is most frequently called.

This means that the place names on the maps often use the designations or abbreviations of the language of the country in which the feature is located, to serve the widest market.

Each neighborhood has been assigned an area number, 1-13, however some of the neighborhoods carry unofficial names long associated with them prior to their current numeric designations.

At one time or another tribal designations and place names have also been used as self-designations, for instance manjagir, birachen, solon, etc.

PKWARE also agreed to cease any use of SEA's trademark ' ARC ' and to change the names or marks used with PKWARE's programs to non-confusing designations.

Aircraft were given names or numerical designations by manufacturers, like Ilya Muromets or Anatra Anasal.

* Where civilian aircraft types have been taken into service, their existing names or alphanumeric designations have often been retained, e. g. the Vickers VC10 or Lockheed TriStar.

Due to the overlapping of auto trail designations, portions of the route had other names that remain in common use, such as the Boston Post Road between Boston and New York, the Lincoln Highway between New York and Philadelphia, Baltimore Pike between Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the Dixie Highway in and south of eastern Georgia.

Federal and state officials established the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, which proposed a numbered U. S. Highway system which would make the Trail designations obsolete, though technically the Joint Board had no authority over highway names.

Many names are attributed to the Tsar Bomba in the literature: Project 7000 ; product code 202 ( Izdeliye 202 ); article designations RDS-220 ( РДС-220 ), RDS-202 ( РДС-202 ), RN202 ( PH202 ), AN602 ( AH602 ); codename Vanya ; nicknames Big Ivan, Tsar Bomba, Kuzkina Mat '.

The formal names of the bridges are generally ignored by residents in favor of the traditional designations " Little Bridge " and " Big Bridge.

Most of the townships platted in the early 1900s were surveyed as a tool for promotion and sales, and remain as names for neighborhoods and post office designations today.

It had long been ESO's intention to provide " real " names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the original technical designations of UT1 to UT4.

In the final version we are presented instead with, as Michael Robinson describes it in The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett, “ the three corners of love ’ s eternal triangle ( the emphasis here is on the eternal ) … They have no names, simply the designations M, W1 and W2 which aim at anonymity but also stand for all men and women who have, like them, been caught up in a three-part love affair ,”

Since the late 10th century, the names " Bulgarians " and " Bulgarian " got prevalence and became permanent designations for the local population, both in the literature and in the spoken language.

In addition, cultivars may be associated with commercial marketing names referred to in the Cultivated Plant Code as " trade designations " ( see below ).

Marketing names lie outside the scope of the Cultivated Plant Code which refers to them as " trade designations ".

In recent times many ICRAs have also recorded trade designations and trademarks used in labelling plant material, to avoid confusion with established names.

he point of intersection of a and b is then the same as the point of intersection of b and c. So we have different designations for the same point, and these names (' point of intersection of a and b ', ' point of intersection of b and c ') likewise indicate the mode of presentation ; and hence the statement contains actual knowledge.

During the Korean War, the large number of locations used for bases and the similarity of some geographical names prompted the Air Force to use alphanumeric identifiers for bases in addition to their proper designations.

These division designations are mostly derived from selected local tribe names.

They were first offered in 1974 as direct substitutes for Kroeber's earlier designations based upon the names of local Spanish missions.