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Pontifications contains 20 interviews with the author, all of them featuring Mailer's celebrated amalgam of adrenaline, mysticism and flapdoodle...
...merchant genius of the Phoenicians seemed to linger over the land that Lebanon inherited from them. Beirut, a bright, amiable amalgam of beach resort and international bank and world-class shopping mall and neon whorehouse, was invariably called the Paris of the Middle East. It may have been more like Monte Carlo, crossed with Miami Beach and Zurich. The Lebanese were cultured and vividly commercial. They stood precisely at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern culture, and took a handsome profit by mediating between the two. They have the highest literacy rate and the only real parliamentary democracy...
...were at large in Huntington Station, and, until he died of cancer six years ago, one tough Irishman was in charge. Arthur J. Cooney ("Tony" was his fellow construction workers' misunderstanding of "Cooney") applied the two disciplines of his life, the Merchant Marine and ironworking, to rearing children. The amalgam amounted to walking a narrow beam at attention. Sometimes Eileen Cooney wonders if her sons did not see gyms as sanctuaries. The challenger's mother is a tall, robust woman, oldfashioned, sort of flusterable, and nice. Her grandmother was acquainted with Gene Tunney's family in Ireland and compelled...
...that "all you need is love" and making veiled metaphorical references to be burgeoning drug culture, Reed, the Underground's songwriter, graphically described the joys and horrors of narcotics, life on the streets, and, ten years before the punks, the general decay of society. The music was fresh--an amalgam of raw, sometimes un-melodic guitar solos and John Cale's imaginative violin in tunes so unorthodox they assaulted listeners. Countless punk and new wave bands of the 70s drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground which--after a four-year existence and a few classic tracks like "Sweet Jane...
...tracks the regal personage from its earliest years when it could be found in the nursery, biting its older sister. At times, Margaret seems to have walked from a Thurber cartoon, inquiring in 1939, "Who is this Hitler, spoiling everything?" By her early 20s she has become a peculiar amalgam of Elizabeth Taylor and an acrylic doll, possessing "an almost Semitic beauty with a Lucite complexion...