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...beginning, Mailer spins publicity for convict and murderer Jack Abbott, helps get Abbott's prison book published and Abbott paroled. The con with the prose style of a Doberman (all speed and teeth) obeys his muse again. Six weeks after parole, Abbott kills a man in New York City's East Village. Mailer must concoct another redemption. He proposes a principle: "Culture is worth a little risk," Mailer tells reporters. Abbott should not be punished too harshly for this murder. It is true that he is not in any condition just now to walk around loose...
Jack Henry Abbott, convict turned literary celebrity, answered...
...drunks, courting death. Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy. Whenever the film focuses on Pixote's face-solemn, premoral, scuffed like a club fighter's-it seems a snapshot of an infant convict at the end of his last mile...
Just before Donovan was confirmed in February, the FBI told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because...
Last week in the decrepit Chicago Amphitheater, in the middle of the stockyards, Joe and Floyd ("Jumbo") Cummings fought to a melancholy ten-round draw. Frazier may still shake buildings, but what once would have been lethal lefts did not move Jumbo, a muscle-bound 30-year-old ex-convict, who almost knocked Joe out three different times. Joe's left eye was blackened, his lower lip was frayed, his face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook...