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...brand of "gonzo journalism," opposed to professional journalism and characterized by the need for "intense, demented involvement" with the subject. Although it requires a much greater degree of personal involvement, gonzo journalism is akin to Tom Wolfe's style of reporting -- which evolved in one instance into "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" after Wolfe hightailed around the West following Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters...
...public personality that has recently swept New York is the spray-painting and magic marking of every available surface, especially subway cars, by teenage graffitists. Their calling cards are everywhere in the city, proclaiming that these teenagers may be crazy, but they are surviving: Junior 151; Mouse 162; Super Kool...
Harry J. O'Donnell is Communications Director for the New York Committee to Re-elect the President, and as far as he is concerned, Junior 151, Super Kool and most of the rest of New York are too poor and screwed-up to qualify as potential Nixon voters. But confident that the President will carry Long Island and upstate New York by a huge margin, O'Donnell is willing to let McGovern have New York City. "All we want to do is hold McGovern to a 400,000 vote plurality in New York City," O'Donnell told...
...capita cigarette consumption. Average consumption worked out to 4,039 cigarettes a year for each American over 18, or slightly more than half a pack a day, up from 3,993 in 1969. Winston is still the best-selling brand, followed by Pall Mall, Marlboro, Salem and Kool. Regular Camels (there is also a filtered version) are in sixth place, but are expected to decline along with nonfilter brands generally. Filters now account for almost four-fifths of the industry's sales...
...directions, but while other bands faltered and broke up or became popular successes and set off on the big-money concert circuit, the Dead stayed close to home and worked on their music. They were the source, but their style found outlets in many places. (Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test gives them their due: ". . .-the sound of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album and the high-vibrato sounds of the Jefferson Airplane, the Mothers of Invention, and many other groups-the mothers of it all were the Grateful Dead...