Word: graspingly
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...mentioned is the fact that he wrote Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and several other black comedies. Loot, you see, has a corpse for its focus, just as Orton's life, ironically and grotesquely, had in the final tally a corpse (his own) as the basis of the public's grasp of what he was and had been...
...pants design [Feb. 1] is an obvious and frenzied subterfuge on designers' part, aimed at further discrediting short fashions and finally establishing the stillborn midi, thus maintaining fashion's faltering and sweaty grasp on the American dollar. Even TIME'S pictorial couldn't save the attractive girls from the jellied-thigh look. The love for the greasy till has produced yet another fumble...
...Pentagon, and asked to lunch at Nedick's by Ralph Nader, who wanted me to find out how much General Motors really makes. At 25 I was being mentioned in the press as the next Secretary of Defense-even the White House did not seem beyond my grasp. There was just one hitch. Myrna wanted me to show Jerry Rubin how to lead a revolution on $5 a day or less...
...marriages; his preoccupation with the small town mind; the constant dualities of vision: the stylistic brilliance, the quick substitutions of abstract for concrete; the sweeping flights, within single phrases, from the commonplace to the sublime (Hemingway's brains are "scattered now in every atmosphere"); metaphors that reach out and grasp every aspect of common experience; and the quick observations that outgun entire works of lesser writers (as when Frank McGee is described as having "a personality all reminiscent . . . of a coach of a rifle team"). As usual, Mailer's observations are passionate rather than considered, emerging from the heat...
...slow and painful night. And although one watched the parade of speakers closely, it was easier not to listen to their words. The usual repulsion one felt when faced with this country's atrocities, the usual outrage in discovering the government to be wrenched form our grasp, were both there. But a new hatred had entered the picture. A hatred of each other for not seeing "the obvious solutions" with equal clarity...