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“Norman Mailer’s ‘Extreme’ Situations.” Article-interview. Information provided by Luaine Lee of Knight-Ridder newspapers; by Candice Burk-Block, in a dispatch of the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp.; and by Barbara Bright of Reuter News Service. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 30 September, 1, 4. Expansion of material in 87.23, including Mailer’s comments on good and evil: “My idea of an awful person is one who is 35 percent good and 65 percent evil. A hero is perhaps a reverse percentage. I’m fascinated by the good that is in evil people.” See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.