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- {{Huge|20th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference}}<br/>603 bytes (72 words) - 11:25, 4 December 2022
- ...direction. When the Cold War ended, it was as if the great switch on this huge electromagnet was released and now all the fragments went in all directions1 KB (194 words) - 16:34, 10 March 2019
- ...''Washington Times'', 2 June. In this brief piece, {{NM}} says he sees “a huge difference” between Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh, suspect in the562 bytes (80 words) - 16:39, 10 March 2019
- ...about here,” he said, “is an invisible government that has powers that are huge, undefined and uncertain even to themselves.” See [[73.2]], [[73.10]], [[648 bytes (84 words) - 13:44, 20 December 2018
- ...tion. What’s important is that there’s an evil force in the world which is huge and immense and in my opinion is probably equal to God. I think they are ha733 bytes (110 words) - 16:01, 15 March 2019
- ...ve Heaven if we live, and die, especially, for Allah. What you’ve got is a huge war shaping, in which you’ve got—let me speak like a Jamaican for a mom923 bytes (148 words) - 16:44, 16 May 2019
- ...Clinton and Monica Lewinsky (he compares Clinton to Ramses II exposing his huge erect penis at religious festivals 3,000 years ago), the Bush-Gore presiden860 bytes (127 words) - 19:28, 12 March 2019
- ..., and put on the armor, and go to war, go out to war again, and try to hew huge strokes with the only broadsword God ever gave you, a glimpse of something967 bytes (149 words) - 16:15, 18 December 2018
- ...he World Trade Centre. He described the buildings before the attack a “two huge buck teeth” and said the ruin was more striking. He watched the event unf1 KB (160 words) - 07:35, 13 March 2019
- ...order to do anything on your own.” Speaking of his father, he said: “I’m a huge believer in the continuation of dreams over generations, in the gene stream1 KB (178 words) - 06:49, 12 March 2019
- ...nd Stone’s film (“should be seen not as history but myth,” the story of “a huge and hideous event in which the gods warred, and a god fell”). See [[92.4]1 KB (159 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2019
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- ...of less than medium size and slightly more than medium weight, but with a huge dragon’s tail”—the legends surrounding his reputation. Speaking of th1 KB (192 words) - 16:11, 31 May 2020
- {{Huge|October 26-28, 2014 @ Wilkes University}}<br/>1 KB (201 words) - 08:51, 20 May 2022
- ...dding that [[w:Women's liberation movement|the Women’s Liberation]] has “a huge potentiality for totalitarianism, and I think women ought to be the first t2 KB (246 words) - 15:35, 23 August 2020
- ...stage, he looked young, vivid, and his eyes flashed when he addressed the huge audience saying in a stunningly serene way that this would be probably his2 KB (316 words) - 17:30, 7 July 2020
- {{Huge|18th Annual Norman Mailer Society Virtual Conference<br />October 15-17, 203 KB (382 words) - 08:47, 20 May 2022
- At this point I am going to stop being silly and tell you how huge was Norman Mailer’s heart. He was being magnanimous and generous when he3 KB (526 words) - 17:58, 7 July 2020
- ...sting writers anywhere….''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' beats with the pulse of some huge night carnivore…It tells a sometimes bizarre, always violent, absolutely3 KB (543 words) - 07:35, 24 April 2019
- {{Huge|2nd Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference}}<br />3 KB (439 words) - 08:11, 21 May 2022
- ...sing analyst, he could hardly be caught having a friend who was not only a huge smoker, but had turned him into one. So he had to be self-protective. He ha4 KB (768 words) - 08:48, 27 April 2021
- ...ife, humanity, and women. Dreamers with vivid imaginations, jokesters with huge egos who were ambitious, confident, and at times irreverent. Only the bigge4 KB (696 words) - 17:49, 7 July 2020
- {{Huge|19th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference}}<br/>4 KB (567 words) - 08:42, 20 May 2022
- ...tly bring it to life with his energy, humor, or anger. His personality was huge. When he looked at you, his sharp, blue eyes gave only a hint of their magn4 KB (694 words) - 17:42, 7 July 2020
- {{Huge|October 10-12, 2019 @ Wilkes University}}<br/>4 KB (667 words) - 10:11, 20 May 2022
- {{Huge|19th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference}}<br />4 KB (490 words) - 14:05, 9 June 2022
- ...ven more astonishing, our friendship, which lasted sixty years despite the huge upheavals in both our lives, went the distance without a real quarrel. In p ...ediately invited me to their parties on Rue Bréa, near Raspail. This was a huge leap for me. I met the Trotskyist intellectual Jean Malaquais, and smart Am9 KB (1,570 words) - 18:48, 7 July 2020
- The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Tributes to Norman Mailer/Norman Mailer: A Prolific Life to the End...007 death at age 84, the provocative, prolific Norman Mailer left behind a huge body of work. The two-time Pulitzer winner published more than 30 novels, b4 KB (747 words) - 17:52, 7 July 2020
- ...ot by dates of composition, but by the dates of the events described, this huge collection contains 139 excerpts from 26 of {{NM}}’s books, and from unco5 KB (660 words) - 15:25, 15 October 2019
- ...he glare of events, ''[[An American Dream]]'' beats with the pulse of some huge night carnivore. It defines the American style by presenting the most extre5 KB (788 words) - 06:53, 23 April 2019
- ...mad Ali, Picasso — a meditation on graffiti … these examples pulled from a huge output, another characteristic of these prolific authors.5 KB (923 words) - 17:57, 7 July 2020
- ...e was fierce, he was a pacifist; he was a very handsome man, he also had a huge gawking ungainly body and a potbelly; he had exquisite taste in many a li6 KB (1,051 words) - 08:34, 7 February 2019
- ...to say — as nearly everyone did — that the atmosphere was reminiscent of a huge Sunday picnic, a church picnic, there was also an air of subtle depression, ...that is going to appear each successive issue in Esquire will not have the huge proportions and extreme ambition of the big book described in ''[[Advertise13 KB (2,249 words) - 09:47, 14 July 2021
- ...ration we cannot even begin to conceive. For certain, however, Ali had one huge flood tide in his favor — the cause of his own black people — a ...and he was able to lie so well in the ring. What is remarkable now is the huge distance he has come against the deepest habits of prevarication in himself13 KB (2,472 words) - 08:32, 7 February 2019
- ...It was perfect for America. We really did something for America. It made a huge change in America.8 KB (1,476 words) - 07:51, 6 July 2020
- ...e — at least more entertainingly than any other writer I was aware of. His huge ego put a smile on my face, the way Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali would do some ...ler''': It’s a little on the grand side. Picasso’s a great artist who made huge changes in the world. There are two kinds of artist. There’s the artist w15 KB (2,819 words) - 17:59, 7 July 2020
- ...sing analyst, he could hardly be caught having a friend who was not only a huge smoker, but had turned him into one. So he had to be self-protective. He ha8 KB (1,519 words) - 11:58, 13 September 2020
- ...te Gloria Taylor of the Illinois State Library in Springfield, performed a huge amount of research for the project throughout the 80s. Peter’s and Gloria7 KB (1,099 words) - 09:47, 8 July 2020
- ...e ruminating about it intersected with the death of a person who has had a huge impact on my own life: Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for the Canadian ro9 KB (1,464 words) - 13:31, 2 March 2021
- ...was fascinated by Billy Graham, by the evangelist’s charismatic power over huge audiences, by the thoroughly American character of his Christian public fai ...broke, unwanted. It is every writer’s fear. It was mine. Norman was facing huge tax liabilities. The Government had targeted him, probably because of his p22 KB (3,925 words) - 18:47, 7 July 2020
- ...during the filming of ''Maidstone'', talks of him in exalted terms, of his huge talent, the excitement of his prose, the energy he gives out, inspiring you9 KB (1,614 words) - 18:45, 7 July 2020
- ...uage of description. By this standard, ''The Armies of the Night'' makes a huge and durable case for the supremacy of the novelist’s empathetic imaginati10 KB (1,691 words) - 09:59, 8 July 2021
- ...rman handle this? And I knew he would never take the easy way out. He gave huge energy to his work, to his country, and to his family and friends. Over the10 KB (1,936 words) - 09:40, 8 July 2021
- ...you finished it?” referring to ''[[Harlot's Ghost|Harlot’s Ghost]]'', his huge CIA novel due out in October from Random House. It is an unusually cool day ...oks like a horse; it looks like a woman; it looks like Mayor Daley. It’s a huge thing that he donated to the City of Chicago. It dominates the Daley Plaza.24 KB (4,449 words) - 16:21, 5 July 2020
- '''Norman Mailer''': There’s an anger in people now that comes out of this huge anxiety that they have more money than they feel they have properly earned. ...or more and more of what I call passive power, which is one reason for the huge excitement about the computer. The computer gives you passive power. You ne46 KB (8,486 words) - 17:25, 15 March 2019
- ...ir purpose was, and the Hitleresque parallels were plain to see, to have a huge military presence in the Middle East as a stepping-stone to taking over the ...ush knows what he’s doing for the future of [the] Empire by awarding these huge tax credits to the rich?"{{sfn|Mailer|2003|p=64}} This war, adds Vonnegut,35 KB (5,662 words) - 09:51, 8 July 2021
- ...that some dim reflection can be found in literature of the long aisles and huge machines of that social mill which is the world of endeavor, yes, just abou12 KB (2,050 words) - 08:27, 7 February 2019
- '''Grobel''': You achieved huge success at 25 with that novel. Did you mishandle it? ...for a while, would you? It would be almost impossible; you’d have to make huge errors. I went from obscurity into being a well-known author overnight. I w56 KB (10,305 words) - 09:57, 8 July 2021
- ...skill in the land of authority? Obvious remarks, but it is precisely this huge and much convinced unconscious part of oneself which a demonstrator has to13 KB (2,139 words) - 10:00, 8 July 2021
- ...bookends. We would be terribly careful with one another; we both knew the huge cost of a literary feud so we certainly didn’t want to argue. On the othe ...se failures of life, those flashes of old fiascos, wait like ghosts in the huge house of the empty middle-aged self. Sometimes the ghosts even appear and a30 KB (5,754 words) - 07:39, 6 June 2021
- ...work with. Unlike the other films, just in terms of shots, there weren’t a huge amount of options. It was ...here. A rebate of something like 42% of the total budget, which could be a huge incentive for producers. So, we’ll see how all that goes. In the meantime52 KB (9,369 words) - 07:59, 29 June 2021
- ...d. Like a propeller whose blades are sixty feet long is sucking air down a huge tunnel.” I pondered the image. We walked by my mother’s house, which no ...mosphere was devoid of the piety Norman so disliked, it was saturated with huge love for a man who did so much with his life. He lay in open view in a cask25 KB (4,487 words) - 17:56, 7 July 2020
- ..., and put on the armor, and go to war, go out to war again, and try to hew huge strokes with the only broadsword God ever gave you, a glimpse of something ...of the top rope. Griffith was in like a cat ready to rip the life out of a huge boxed rat. He hit him eighteen right hands in a row, an act which took perh28 KB (4,578 words) - 09:53, 8 July 2021
- ...ven so, he was concerned that the publicity surrounding the novel, and its huge sales, would alienate the readers of the leading literary journal in the U.14 KB (2,406 words) - 08:47, 1 September 2019
- ...The novel was controversial from the time it was announced and generated a huge number of sharply divided reviews in literary journals and the mainstream p ...is going to appear each successive issue in ''Esquire'' will not have the huge proportions and extreme ambition of the big book described in ''Advertiseme28 KB (4,564 words) - 16:11, 28 May 2020
- The next day Rusty and D.J. go hunting without the others. They track down a huge grizzly and D.J. shoots it twice. The bear has enough anger and energy left ...sense, they have been emasculated and incapable of violence without their huge guns. They’ve lost their erection for life. But27 KB (4,715 words) - 09:47, 8 July 2021
- {{quote|There is a huge subject of what personal intelligence has done to transform life…. It is14 KB (2,461 words) - 08:51, 8 July 2021
- ...started with $1,000 and we filmed for four nights. Don enjoyed it. We had huge fun during the nights we made it. We were drunk. It really was a continuati ...us. There was Dick. I’d get out of jail. There was Dick. I ended up with a huge respect for the ability that a documentarian needs. They need all the skill34 KB (6,405 words) - 09:55, 8 July 2021
- ...n Mailer and sadly now, we won’t be able to play catch-up any more. What a huge loss to anybody who cares about the time of his time. But still, unquestion15 KB (2,646 words) - 17:58, 7 July 2020
- ...LA can also watch it. With these indie movies, the opening weekend makes a huge difference in its success or failure, so we are praying for a good turn out17 KB (2,399 words) - 09:48, 5 January 2022
- ...edy|first=William |abstract=I decided Mailer didn’t have a style. He had a huge brain, which I couldn’t imitate. In those early days I didn’t have a br ...merely intelligent. I decided Mailer didn’t have a style either. He had a huge brain, which I couldn’t imitate. In those early days I didn’t have a br34 KB (6,066 words) - 11:41, 13 July 2021
- ...in for the opening of the archive, but I really had no idea that it was so huge, that the number of letters was immense. He tells us that there are some 4543 KB (7,843 words) - 08:34, 4 July 2020
- ...gether and he said, “Now she has a knee just like me,” because he had this huge scar on his knee from surgery. Now that was an emergency, and he understood ...was ’77, it was only really two years that we were there, but Willie was a huge part of our lives at that time.46 KB (8,809 words) - 08:44, 5 July 2020
- I admire the huge, shiny jukebox in the living room.16 KB (2,880 words) - 17:53, 7 July 2020
- ...he Ku Klux Klan came to Long Branch in force. On July 4th, the Klan held a huge four hour parade of hooded marchers. Its effect on Long Branch was temporar20 KB (3,672 words) - 08:36, 5 July 2020
- '''Chris Busa''': She appeared as a very tiny person with a very big bear, a huge man protecting this long-ago person. I thought that [it was interesting] to ...s? As everybody here knows, first thing he did was say, “Ooooh!” with this huge handshake. He grabbed my arm, and within thirty seconds we were best buddie50 KB (9,361 words) - 08:32, 4 July 2020
- ...hanks but no thanks.” I thought it would be a prodigious amount of work, a huge dollop of anxiety, and that it would never come to anything. And Tom said,21 KB (3,892 words) - 10:13, 9 March 2019
- ...y colored couches, purple and red, with silk pillows surrounding her and a huge radiant smile. Once a friend of mine from school came over and asked, “Wh25 KB (4,949 words) - 08:43, 5 July 2020
- ...r had to be more of a man than a god, an existential man, dominated by the huge cloud that he is the Son of God. Jesus, as the protagonist, doesn’t feel24 KB (3,957 words) - 09:52, 8 July 2021
- ...c snapshot here resonates all the more chillingly surrounded as it is by a huge book in which the author has paid his contextual dues. And when Mailer hono ...the depth of perception . . . It’s kind of like McDonald’s food. We have a huge equivalent of McDonald’s food in the literary world. . . . Most great wri41 KB (6,867 words) - 16:19, 27 June 2021
- ...fight. Like Ali and Foreman and Mailer and Plimpton, they each possessed a huge ego and led complex and controversial lives. ...rge looked nothing like the original. He’d always been big, but now he was huge. And he’d learned to relax in the ring, no longer tensely stalking oppone43 KB (7,246 words) - 10:05, 24 May 2022
- .... Like a propeller whose blades are 60 feet long is sucking the air down a huge tunnel. Anyway, to go back to my first impressions we were only here about ...r that book at the annex to the New York Public Library, leafing through a huge book depicting the Battle of Kadesh, the first battle recorded in history,56 KB (10,442 words) - 11:35, 27 October 2019
- ...everything that was said about him in print, which was the beginning of a huge archive. He was impressed with that, that I liked his stuff, that I knew hi ...affairs with dozens of women over the course of his lifetime. It created a huge crisis, and when push came to shove, he gave up the private life. Not entir102 KB (18,334 words) - 07:38, 6 July 2020
- Of course, there are movies which have delivered huge pleasures to millions and never were film at all, just celluloid theatre co ...e were bona fide stars. There was Catherine Deneuve and Robert Redford and huge box-office familiars predictable as the neighbor next door and twice as viv89 KB (16,254 words) - 17:37, 30 June 2021
- from his huge and varied body of work. The excerpts were presented chronologically accord31 KB (5,495 words) - 18:49, 7 July 2020
- ...nd that was hard, too. But despite our differences I think my mother had a huge influence on me: her pallet, the beautiful things in our home that I would32 KB (5,944 words) - 08:11, 4 July 2020
- ...e able to glimpse the magical foundations of being. Such a vision requires huge risks, which explains why many would prefer not to see what Mailer’s hero32 KB (5,153 words) - 09:41, 8 July 2021
- ...ter, after a sex climax with Ruta, he has “a vision immediately after of a huge city in the desert, in some desert, was it a place on the moon?”{{sfn|Mai32 KB (5,327 words) - 11:08, 13 July 2021
- ...tea = marijuana), the journal was “a wild set of thoughts and outlines for huge projects.” The ideas “came so fast,” he wrote, “that sometimes I th33 KB (5,221 words) - 09:25, 15 July 2022
- ..., the population of a single mid-sized Lower 48 city. Alaska, indeed, is a huge hunk of wild Americana.34 KB (5,542 words) - 10:31, 8 July 2021
- ...le long patrol to capture a key position on a Pacific island. But with its huge cast of characters, their ethnic and geographical diversity, their backstor37 KB (6,301 words) - 08:33, 8 July 2021
- ...opes of such a mystery.” More importantly, Mailer underscores the role the huge political changes of the early 1990s played in gaining access to the inform ...shot at Kennedy: “There was so much clarity Lee could watch himself in the huge room of stacked cartons . . . He fired off a second shot.”{{sfn|DeLillo|1105 KB (16,741 words) - 15:31, 27 June 2021
- ...University. The centerpiece of the room is his former dining room table, a huge,46 KB (8,093 words) - 18:08, 1 March 2021
- ...single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will come around to him.”{{sfn|Emerson|1960|pp=75, 79}} In “Self-45 KB (7,063 words) - 14:11, 8 June 2021
- ...minor activity, but it took on accelerated proportions, as if many found a huge satisfaction in throwing rocks through windows much as though they would pr48 KB (8,606 words) - 13:05, 1 March 2021
- ...ing or fighting for his male pride, but he is at other times a creature of huge self-doubt,”{{sfn|Begiebing|1980|p=187}} hence Mailer’s fascination wit52 KB (8,284 words) - 15:36, 26 June 2021
- ...g had been there to receive me. But I had a vision immediately after of a huge city in the desert, in some desert, was it a place on the moon? For the col ...at this doctrine has been a major rationalization for the establishment of huge capitalistic fortunes earlier in the country’s history, it may be seen as94 KB (16,514 words) - 06:45, 21 September 2020
- ...rt tied at the waist, showing a bit of my belly button. I was also wearing huge platform shoes called Bare Traps that made me about six feet one. (I’m fi58 KB (11,480 words) - 10:06, 5 July 2020
- through many changes. Gone are the huge bookstores in major cities. By the83 KB (10,805 words) - 10:16, 28 June 2021
- ...ter or vegetable) is elaborating somewhere in his mind the conception of a huge and great social novel. That unwritten unvoiced but nonetheless psychically63 KB (11,593 words) - 15:20, 29 June 2021
- ...ords of ''Harlot’s Ghost'': “To be continued.” He had a title and he had a huge number of notes. It was going to be called “Harlot’s Grave.”103 KB (19,334 words) - 09:14, 4 July 2021
- ...ve variously burned or become schools, summer camps, museums, resorts. The huge cottages are tax-free or commercial property, which suggest to me outrageou72 KB (12,589 words) - 07:58, 6 July 2020
- ...he interruptions result in fault lines rather than seamlessness. Like many huge, perhaps overly ambitious, artistic projects, it has both flaws and virtues ...t contains, as you say, “as much chaff as kernel in the whole.” And, yes, “huge, perhaps overly ambitious projects” like ''Paradise Lost'' and ''Moby-Dic105 KB (17,648 words) - 09:30, 8 July 2021
- ...ject of the novel. Both journeys are filled with dangers, temptations, and huge risks. What one can endure and overcome depends at each point in the contin135 KB (22,498 words) - 10:03, 11 October 2020