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...going to.try the applause on the show! Are you ready, gang? Let's take it! One . . . two . . . three . . . pow! [Wild applause.] Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Yeeow! Oooh, audience, that...
...question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but whether he can be taken at all. He uses a language that explodes with comic-book words like "POW!" and "boing." His sentences are shot with ellipses, stabbed with exclamation points, or bombarded with long lists of brand names and anatomical terms. He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese. His outlook is partly cool, partly hysterical, and just slightly unconventional enough to make it provocative. The need for journalists like Wolfe is clear...
...director, played by old Norm of course, with a sharp little subplot about a bunch of male prostitutes. How's that for a takeoff on Belle de Jour? Beautiful. So there they were, Mailer and about 100 of his pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith's jaw. Next day, Mailer and Actor Rip Torn were doing a scene-and pow again! Torn whammed Mailer over the head with a toy hammer, to which Mailer responded by chewing away on Torn...
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...Faster than a chartered 707! Pow! As powerful as Pappa Joe's Checkbook! Sok! It's the American Eagle! It's the Dove of Peace! It's Super Fraud! Who, disguised in beads and a turtleneck, leads a never-ending battle for touch football, New Camelot, and his own way! Bleah...