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...Yorker, Finnegan spent about six years hanging out among the young on the dark edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly appears from time to time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers...
...That Africa, and a great deal else, is resplendent in When We Were Kings (1996). The story of 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" in then-Zaire is punctuated with the near-lyrical musings of George Plimpton and Norman Mailer (who covered the fight as sportswriters) and fleshed out with the black faces of a nation brought to life by the event and by Ali himself. It's a battle hymn and a history lesson...
...YORK: Continuing the conglomeration of all things media, German giant Bertelsmann AG snapped up America's largest publishing house Monday. Random House, which hires such pen-pushers as Michael Crichton, Norman Mailer and John Updike, was sold for an undisclosed sum. The big news for web users is that Bertelsmann, the world's third-largest media company (behind Time Warner and Disney), is in the midst of creating BooksOnline, a rival to Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble -- which will be a lot more comfortable with Random House's back catalog...
...John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul...
...vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City...