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- ...30. It was back when Dad still wore blue suits and ties and fancy shoes to events, back before he walked on two canes, back when he was still a bit chubby, w25 KB (4,949 words) - 08:43, 5 July 2020
- {{quote|He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had s ...ries of five vignettes, printed in italic type, describing places, people, events, sensory impressions, hints and allusions that represent “what might have71 KB (11,145 words) - 10:01, 3 March 2021
- ...ve hunting trip in Northern Alaska. The disparity between the language and events ought therefore to be enough to make us realize that sex here always stands ...otagonists and offers a form of metacritical commentary upon the narrative events at hand, in turn violating the ontological divisions set within the novel i52 KB (8,284 words) - 15:36, 26 June 2021
- ...s, “Ignoring your general ignorance of the details, the speakers allude to events that you cannot quite pick up on. . . . Time periods converge. You aren’t ...heral to Mailer’s life. Rollyson perhaps accepts too readily their view of events in order to give a new sense of Mailer, to write with a different spin.70 KB (11,273 words) - 17:43, 2 July 2021
- ...on the Pentagon, I found myself running into Norman at parties and public events. Typical of New Yorkers, we discovered we had friends in common. I remember22 KB (3,925 words) - 18:47, 7 July 2020
- ...ng trade that however sincere, helpful or passionate the people closest to events might seem, their stories generally become less trustworthy in proportion t ...In so doing, he makes an indelible point about what happens when political events pull the curtain on what George Orwell called “the strange mixture of rea41 KB (6,867 words) - 16:19, 27 June 2021
- ...e disclosed, and of an underground film! Gather near! Listen to the subtle events which preceded the shooting. ...ter before the tyrannical insistence of the script that all characters and events be funneled through the narrow orifice of committee solutions to aesthetic63 KB (11,593 words) - 15:20, 29 June 2021
- ...''Daily Telegraph'' story on what is called “factoid journalism, reporting events which may have happened,” a usage which suggests that the factual status25 KB (3,849 words) - 07:55, 6 July 2020
- ...Rosenberg Death March from Union Square to Knickerbocker Village and other events that summer. It wasn’t long before I started to work for United Press mys ...Rosenberg Death March from Union Square to Knickerbocker Village and other events that summer. It wasn’t long before I started to work for United Press mys89 KB (16,887 words) - 08:32, 8 July 2021
- ...etic to Marina and presents her side of the story. For Marina’s version of events, Mailer uses interviews with Marina taped during the 1970s by Larry Schille24 KB (4,096 words) - 09:05, 4 July 2021
- ...n to Egypt. We don’t want to fall into the trap of thinking the topics and events in a work of fiction are being condoned by the author. Homosexual rape, cas ...e do have a continuing internal dialogue regarding a number of “corrected” events. To suggest a few: details and reflections on early family life to his thir105 KB (17,648 words) - 09:30, 8 July 2021
- ...88|p=66}} By taking Cherry from Rojack as a consequence of a long chain of events in which Rojack’s actions have often been the catalysts, Mailer forces Ro56 KB (8,907 words) - 08:20, 4 July 2020
- This passage is significant to Mikey’s understanding of the events of the novel, as he relates them in retrospect. The realization that histor ..., Mikey has lost his passion because, we may assume, of the disillusioning events following the death of the Trotsky dream.87 KB (15,347 words) - 12:00, 4 July 2020
- ...c grace and generosity, and after several postponements for more important events in his life, notably a trip to Russia, he decided that we should do it righ25 KB (4,502 words) - 07:39, 11 March 2019
- ...graduate student at Wilkes, and he went through and gave me a timeline of events in Mailer’s life as recorded in the other four biographies, so I could ch ..., ''The Last Party'', is a terrific resource as far as the mood of certain events was concerned, and the Zeitgeist. So whenever I quoted from her, and a few102 KB (18,334 words) - 11:42, 11 June 2024
- at times to events described here.30 KB (5,521 words) - 17:18, 24 February 2021
- ...her words, for any individual subject there exists a whole laundry list of events and objects that would fall under the heading “impossibilities,” yet th ...at so systematically undershoots the mark in terms of “inherently shocking events and actions.” A similarly mild burst of violence occurs later in the film51 KB (8,380 words) - 17:42, 28 June 2021
- ...or at the least, a most peculiar annex to memory. For in film we remember events as if they had taken place and we were there. But we were not. The psyche h ...l ever have sex with a beautiful woman or fight for his life? Nonetheless, events so grand might need years of psychic preparation. It was therefore also pos89 KB (16,254 words) - 17:37, 30 June 2021
- We talked while we worked — about politics, movies, actors, acting, current events, our least favorite ''New York Times'' columnists, our families. There was31 KB (5,495 words) - 18:49, 7 July 2020
- The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer/8. The Armies of the Night and Miami and the Siege of Chicago...is a successful combination of the two forms. Mailer recounts historical events here, but he presents them through a plot and structure and a participating32 KB (5,517 words) - 12:07, 4 July 2020