Word: dimaggios
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...early fifties, while Monroe was rising through the ranks of hungry starlets to become the most popular blonde in the history of films--her rise included marriages to the two symbolic princes of midcentury America: Joe DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after...
...cream." As a protean personality of opposites, sentimentality and Grand Bitchiness, soft as lamb's wool and cruel as steel; and finally Mailer has her at her core of sexual power bigger than any man she ever meets. Her movement is towards bigger and bigger fantasy kingdoms, from DiMaggio to Miller to some magical state of Princessdom--she has been rumored to have been offered a chance at marrying Prince Ranier before Grace Kelly. At the end of the book Mailer's novelistic imagination won't quit and he tries to make connections between a brief friendship with Robert Kennedy...
...dependence on sleeping pills. Mailer also offers convincing testimony that the key to this insecurity was the lack of a father, which function Miller fulfilled for a time, but which Clark Gable in his role as her lover cowboy seemed to provide strongest, and filled at other times by DiMaggio and Yves Montand...
...shattered beyond repair. Pole vaulters, broad jumpers, skiers, quarterbacks, golfers, chess players-they have all rewritten the record books until yesterday's hero is exposed as a man with feat of clay. Only baseball has retained so many of its idols. No one has come close to Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak of 1941. The Ted Williams of 1941 was the game's last .400 hitter. Pitcher Cy Young's record of 511 victories has held for two generations. This permanence extends to the game's oddballs, men like Casey Stengel, who once...
...funny... make me spend my money..." The crowd parted. Spike and Mary Lou accepted the spotlight. Back and forth. Jitterbug rock. Through the legs... skin the cat. Up and out. Over the hip. Round and round. It was like the World Series, and bigger than Joe DiMaggio. Man what sport. Boogie... Boogie... Yeah...