Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between, I was with Norman Mailer at thePentagon, with H. Rap Brown at Columbia, withShort (golden curls, white jeans, black boots) atHarvard. Short, who died 11 years ago of cancer,was a gentle anarchist. He would parade withplacards whose main purpose was to confuse. Thenhe moved to existentialism and agnosticism, and Ifollowed. He ended his magnificent piece on theDays of Rage this...
...narrator, blandly written and just as blandly played by Stephen Mailer, is a stand-in for Simon. Unlike the autobiographical trilogy of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound, this play does not give the narrator a penchant for candor. We hear little about how this way of working helped or hurt his craft, satisfied or thwarted his soul. Structurally, the piece owes much to Biloxi: a group in thrall to a dangerous leader, a boot camp that hardens the head more than the heart, a tense scene where some teammate is to be unjustly cast out, a summing...
...Lurk beside an occupied computer, sticking their faces intrusively into the e-mailer's personal space in hopes of scaring him or her into a hastier logout. This is the most popular tactic, especially during peak hours...
Three years ago, telling your friends you were an "e-mailer" would do as much good to your reputation as belonging to the Society of Nerds and Geeks. Two years ago, email was no longer considered something obscure, but anyone who talked about it was sure to draw some blank if not disdainful looks...
Still dewy of eye, Morris looks back on "his" Harper's as a vanguard "in mirroring and interpreting and shaping the configurations of the nation." A calmer view is that the magazine scored some exceptional coups, like Seymour Hersh's expose of My Lai and Norman Mailer's "The Prisoner of Sex." But it also ran too many indulgently edited articles that dribbled on until reeled the mind. The author has chosen to look back on the '60s with a naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted...