Word: gonzo
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...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...
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. The new Clint Eastwood, which should be enough to say. Except that the proper Gonzo approach to Eastwood--getting off on the savage and appalling vulgarity of it all--may be undermined by the appearance of Jeff Bridges, who has been known to act. One can be assured that Eastwood won't. Don't miss it. At the Savoy...
...role, he rode with the motorcycle gang, getting full exposure to the broken home life, intense love of fast choppers, wild orgies and drunken brawls, even suffering a brutal stomping at the end of his relationship with them. Although the means tended toward violence, the end result of this gonzo journalistic venture was a full and objective portrayal of the life style that Thompson compiled in "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs...
APPLIED TO THE SCENE at Las Vegas, gonzo journalism yields no explicit moral evaluations. It gives, rather, a detailed description of the desperate mood and frantic action epitomized by crowds surrounding the crap tables, "still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino...
...articles on the Republican and Democratic Conventions in Miami and on pro-football for Rolling Stone. These are more satisfying and pertinent than "Fear and Loathing" because they contend with bastions of the American Dream that will remain until Thompson's predicted collapse of evil forces. Thompson retains his gonzo journalistic stance but tempers it with political analysis. He acknowledges implicitly that one can deal with present reality, however twisted it appears. As brilliant and funny as it is, "Fear and Loathing" requires nothing but hysterical laughter and self-indulgence while biding time before the apocalypse. And as Thompson admits...