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...first glance, it seems to be a hazardous exercise in déjàvu: nearly the entire new issue of Harper's devoted to a Watergate retrospective. In the absence of new bombshells, what could sustain interest in 65 more pages about the scandal? First-person articles by some of the principals, for one thing, and Harper's managed to come up with some fresh and remarkable copy. "Plumbers" G. Gordon Liddy, Eugenio Martinez and Bernard Barker tell their stories in print for the first tune. E. Howard Hunt contributes a brief essay on hush money. Former...
...midriff-bulging country bumpkin type, who lets his tongue hang out when he swings a golf club. Hill had to win out over those two clowns, and I had to beat the fat old schlock-slingers who never left the press tent with some real, live first-person coverage of the final round...
...this, having waited hopefully on the 17th green for Hill's threesome to come through. When Hill missed a birdie putt that would have put him five under par, I had raced frantically up the 18th fairway, the rain soaking my notebook and ruining all my carefully recorded first-person observations into one another, trying desperately to get to the green in time to see the winning putt. It was no use. The putting surface was packed tight with belching, bellowing, beer-gutted golf fans who had parked their prodigious derrieres next to the sandtraps and choice sections...
...series of construction jobs round the Southwest wherever he thought Tanya's career might blossom. "It's because of my father's blood and guts that we are where we are today," she says. It is not clear whether "we" is a superstar's first-person plural or an indication that Tanya cannot yet separate her identity from that of her close-knit clan...
Because Thompson does not believe in straight lines of logic, his thought is often hard to untangle. Yet a theme runs through his work. Edge of History laid the foundations. Initially it seemed to be the first-person adventures of an intellectual picaro charting his disenchantment with Los Angeles, the Esalen Institute, M.I.T., think tanks and other outposts of American culture. But in the final chapter, when Thompson soared into a free-form essay on myth as futurology, his intent became clear: he is a man questing for evidence of man's perfectibility...