Word: gonzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUNTER S. Thompson weights in with yet another of his inimitable tracts of Gonzo journalism, a rambling tale of how he learned of the whereabouts of his erstwhile companion Oscar Zeta Acosta, the 300-pound Samoan attorney of Fear and Loathing in Vegas fame. It turns out that Acosta is in fact a crazy Chicano militant who has traded in his law books for the accoutrements of drug smuggling. Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak...
Some of the visitors were less political. Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist, told the Law School Forum audience that women lawyers were "some kind of mutant," and Chevy Chase, former actor on Saturday Night Live, did not trip on his way into the auditorium where he spoke this spring...
...lawyers should be castrated and all law schools burnt to the ground," Hunter S. Thompson told an overflow crowd of more than 800 that jammed the Law School's Ames Courtroom to hear the self-styled "doctor of gonzo journalism" address the Law School Forum last night...
Kraft and Reston, in fact, are two of Cockburn's pet peeves. He may have started by seriously criticizing these men--and he still does--but now, in the best gonzo tradition, they have gotten to him. He is positively obsessed with them, and also with Jerry Brown (whom he feels represents a new fascist politics of scarcity), and Jimmy Carter (totally bogus), and C.L. Sulzberger, the major foreign policy voice for Cockburn's "Center Right Coalition," an auspicious group including the likes of Daniel P. Moynihan, Marty Peretz, and half the Harvard faculty...
...through 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. This is the greasiest of them all, but they make pizza and they stay open late. It's almost always empty during the day and packed after about 9 p.m. There is a jukebox and pinball. The 24 is a gonzo haven, and if the waitresses don't get combat pay, they should...