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...this man, Wolfe? The jacket of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby his first book of collected essays, carries with it a photo of Wolfe-as-impudent-baby--faced-cherub, a photo which seems to affirm the purported image. Yet, it bears little relation to the man today. Wolfe's features are those of one much older, an adult, in fact. They are sharply delineated as if fine pencil lines have been added to what had previously existed only as a rather rough cartoon. His hands are pale, they melt into his white suit. If it were...
...sound like 'I had a vision,'" he has written) when an Esquire editor removed the "Dear Byron" form a 49-page, free-flowing memo on custom cars that Wolfe had submitted. The memo, minus salutation but otherwise unedited, ran as "There Goes [Varoom! Varoom] That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." Tom Wolfe had begun to deal with all that was extravagant and overpowering and vulgar in America on its own terms...
...been aged for a year or so. Then the painter deftly laid on his water-base colors, which were sucked into the wall by capillary action. He had to work quickly, for the paint he added after the plaster had dried lay on the surface and could eventually flake off. But color applied while the plaster was damp stayed in it for centuries. As visitors to the Metropolitan can see, the roses, rusts, golds, apple greens and tangy violets today remain as lusty, yet airily mysterious, as they were 500 years...
...build another kind of record entirely. When he is not cracking wise or acting up, Denny McLain throws baseballs for the Detroit Tigers. In a summer when pitchers are dominating the big-league game, Denny is, in fact, dominating the pitchers. A few fans still call him "Super Flake" or "Mighty Mouth," but the sneers stop when he steps up on the mound. This season, as never before, Denny has been putting his muscle where his mouth...
...just slightly unconventional enough to make it provocative. The need for journalists like Wolfe is clear, and he has become the most talked about, the most imitated, if not the most bewildering journalist of the '60s. Wolfe's first collection of articles-The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, written mostly for Esquire and New York magazine-was a carnival of pieces about custom-car styling and demolition derbies, teenage tribal rock music, Las Vegas, and the girl of the year. His reportage on the rages and outrages of modern America's cultural phenomena was fascinating...