Word: epiphenomenon
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...when things began to change, about ten years ago, straight journalists found it increasingly hard to catch flies, and into the lurch came something called the New Journalism. At its best, New Journalism had it all over straight reporting because it was an epiphenomenon itself, sort of unconventional, just like the people and stories it covered, and the best of its practitioners was Tom Wolfe. When Wolfe wrote about stock car racers and the good ole boys around them, or Las Vegas with its plasticine madness, or Phil Spector, his was the most accurate stuff around, because...
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