Word: mailer
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...inside, as if to demonstrate Lévy's keen distaste for dogma of whatever kind. "In an obscure affair like this one, there is no final truth," he says. "It was important that the author, who was searching and sometime erring, be present." As an admirer of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Lévy blurs the line between fact and fiction, as he did with his 1988 book The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire. "Facts when facts are known, or it is possible to know them; imagination when facts are not available," he says of his method...
...game, when Mailer or Danner would get the ball in their hands, the stands erupted in cheers...
Senior back Peter Danner and freshman center Tim Mailer wowed spectators on the west coast with fast and clever maneuvering against Utah and Penn...
CRITIQUE In a quickie book for the intelligentsia, novelist and essayist Norman Mailer challenges Bush's war aims and the patriotic impulses they engendered...
...captivating ambition to his Cremaster cycle, five films totaling seven hours that may have no more than 12 lines of spoken dialogue but are otherwise very full of luscious, baffling imagery--a marching band forming the outlines of reproductive organs--and hit-or-miss celebrities: Ursula Andress, Norman Mailer, Barney himself and the fashion model Aimee Mullins, who is a double amputee. At one point in Cremaster 3 she attaches complicated leg devices that allow her to cut potatoes with her prosthetic feet. You can't tell me that...