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...some cocaine dealers in Los Angeles were considerably more cautious: "It was the first time I had been in an attorney's office with semiautomatic weapons leaned up against the wall. It is safe to say that the paranoia level was high on all sides." Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the cover, was struck by the complexity of the current cocaine craze, both in its origins and implications. "Unlike heroin, cocaine use can't be tied to poverty and neglect," he says. "It seems to have more to do with social ritual, spiritual impoverishment and lack...
When the Beatles made their first visit to the U.S. in 1964, Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, then a trainee in TIME'S Washington bureau, was assigned to follow them. Porterfield recalls: "All of them were joking and clowning a lot, but John's humor glinted with a fine, hard intelligence and had a mocking, satirical edge. He also had a sharper way with the language." Porterfield next encountered Lennon in 1968, when he and Paul McCartney were in New York to announce the formation of their own record label, Apple Corps., Ltd. Porterfield, who had written a TIME...
...Sums up Porterfield: "Of all the Beatles, Lennon was the one who showed the greatest depth and complexity. His was the growth I expected the most from, and now that growth has been cut short...
...Dolan TE 81 Grieve SE 82 Jadin E 83 Mattick DT 84 Kokoska TE 85 Moyer E 86 Sheldon E 87 Stratton SE 88 Burkitt E 89 Kirk DT 90 Martin DE 91 Linta DT 92 Leone DE 93 Lombardi DE 94 Hammersmith DE 95 Bernhard TE 96 Porterfield DE 97 Ford T 98 Englert DE 99 Kelley...
...practically a lifetime of such writing behind him. Had the students only known it, their professor was not only explaining Dickens or Flaubert or Kafka. With his quirky insights, his cunning traceries and meticulous diagrams, he was also charting the mind of another great novelist: himself. -By Christopher Porterfield...