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Listen to what Wolfe himself writes about that heady time, when clever skill was the writer's champagne. A writer could break all rules, make up words that had never been heard before and get away with it--yes, even get praised for it! Take grammar and fly in the face of tradition. Everything's new in society, but this stuff, this journalism, this is New. Then, The Novel was receding into the novel, and journalism was becoming New Journalism...
...being locked in a hotel room by his mother when she went out on the town. "That's when my claustrophobia and fear of abandonment began," Capote said. "She locked me in and I still can't get out." Much of his character -- he played the endearing, clever child till late in life and spoke in a high, childish voice -- can be read as a vain attempt to please his mother so much that she would not leave him again, in the hotel room or with his cousins...
Sassy has no such identity crisis. Pert, unnervingly frank and filled with clever asides from "Jane," "Catherine," "Karen," "Christina" and the rest of the staff, it has singlehandedly pioneered a new genre: pajama-party journalism. "The big question we ask is what would a 16-year-old want to learn that no one else would tell her," says Editor Jane Pratt, 25. After being presented with an idea, Pratt hashes it out with her equally young staff, and then, it often seems, simply publishes the text of the discussion. "It was a typical Wednesday morning meeting," begins a feature...
Prascak attempts to be clever, clever, But being clever just once would probably have been better...
...intrusions came to an abrupt halt, but the mystery persists. Was Speer % simply a clever hacker? Or was he a would-be mercenary or even an East bloc spy? Speer is apparently not telling, and the West Germans lack sufficient evidence to haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address...