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...thought we needed some change in our Doritos because Barack Obama is both zesty and chipotle, so I got the variety pack,” says Benjamin J. Nelson ’11, one of the Dems’ phonebanking captains, who then dials the number of a woman in Colorado...
...White says that the group schedules its phonebanks so that the students can use their free cell phone minutes to make the calls. Nelson is now using those minutes to tell the Colorado woman about Obama’s tax plan...
...Nelson fidgets in his chair. He’s now talking with the voter about Obama’s wife Michelle. This woman is clearly not going to be voting Democratic...
...Finally, Nelson gets off the phone...
...motivations. George, Being George does the trick, in part by borrowing the form of Plimpton's own biographies of Capote and Edie Sedgwick (Jean Stein's Edie: American Girl, which he edited). Recognizing that Plimpton's spirit would suffocate under the weight of analytic prose, editor Nelson Aldrich Jr. interviewed more than 200 verbally dexterous Plimpton associates--from Norman Mailer (adoring) and Gay Talese (brutally adoring) to the Plimptons' nanny--and constructed a narrative out of their most entertaining paragraphs. It's biography as cocktail party...