Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back home in Brooklyn, Mailer seems bemused by such deference, somehow bruised by kid gloves. "He's liking being a celebrity less," says former Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres, Mailer's friend and sparring partner. "I think he's tired of the image." And the author's legends do lag well behind substantial changes that he has made in his life...
...have the strength to push people around any more." At this moment, Michael Mailer, 19, handsome and muscular, is heard moving about in a nearby room. Mailer leans forward in his chair and lowers his voice conspiratorially: "I used to be able to look at that kid and he'd cower...
...week habit. Instead, during six months last year, he embezzled $20,000 from the camera store where he worked. His thefts were discovered just before Thanksgiving, but the police were not called, and David's father repaid the $20,000. David cannot figure it. "I was the all-American kid who had never been in trouble," he says. "I was popular. I taught religion classes at the synagogue. How could a well-brought-up kid like me get into something like this...
Donaldson's demeanor of adolescent rebellion-as the kind of kid who got A's on tests and F's in behavior and took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back...
...mouthy caddie of the Toonerville Trolley, since young Tom scarcely uttered a word. Stan Thirsk, the Kansas City Country Club pro who would be to Watson what Jack Grout has been to Nicklaus, a lifelong tutor, noticed Tom in a drive, pitch and putt contest at seven. "Usually a kid that age will just haul off and try to slug the ball," Thirsk says, "but already he had a beautiful balance." It was not until five years later that Thirsk took over Watson's schooling, but he remembered. In 1972, after Tom graduated from Stanford with a degree...