Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that search, Reporter Mark Goodman spent eleven days with this week's cover subject, Hockey Superstar Bobby Hull, observing the man at home, in his car, on the rink, at work on radio commercials, in his lawyer's office, in a bar, signing autographs in a barbershop. Part of the reporting and most of the in-house research for Sport is done by Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum, who is often amused when sports people get nervous about having a feminine reporter around. Some hockey public relations men tried to keep her away from the players "because their language...
...Harper's boasts on the cover, is one magnificent ten-page passage about Thursday Night at the Ambassador Theatre. Time Magazine described the scene in a red-bordered box last October, telling how Mailer slurped bourbon from a coffee mug and yelled obscenities at the audience, as Mitchell Goodman, Robert Lowell, and Dwight MacDonald--the other speakers--sniggered at him patronizingly in the wings...
Amusedly saddened by his own middle-aged moral spread, Mailer moves with almost prissy distaste among the rabble. His sharpest barb is reserved for Poet-Polemicist Paul Goodman, who "looked like the sort of old con who had first gotten into trouble in the Y.M.C.A., and hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only...
...with carte blanche from Stanley Marcus to buy the finest four skins to be made into "the most extravagant lady's sport coat in the world, price no object." What might the coat cost? "Oh, maybe $20,000," said Liebes. Adds Alexander Ehrlich of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, who was commissioned by Alaska to produce a sample, full-length cape to stimulate interest, went on to buy 30 pelts: "With all the couturiers looking for something new, this is the ideal time to introduce this fur. Now it's up to the women." And perhaps...
...Among the quasi-Thoreaus: Nelson Algren, James Baldwin, Eric Bentley, Allen Ginsburg, Paul Goodman, Betty Friedan, Dwight Macdonald, Henry Miller, Terry Southern, Benjamin Spock, William Styron...