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Housing is Fish's biggest logistical problem. He hopes to find the juniors places to stay with families throughout the tour, and give them the priceless cultural experience of sharing American homelife...
Garland Bunting has been on the circuit recently plugging the book for Wilkinson and he presents an absolutely intriguing figure. His speech is priceless, but the printed word can't do justice to the oral history qualities of his "talking trash," for example shocking a waitress by ordering...
This is the "sanctum sanctorum," said John A. Wolter, flinging open the door to the vault, which was cool and quiet as a tomb. "And this," he continued, sliding out a drawer, "is absolutely priceless." The item at hand was a map, faded so much that to take it in entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas...
...since his return. "I would like to make the greatest understatement of my life," said the smiling priest, "when I say to you, I'm happy to be with you. It is fitting that we are meeting on July Fourth to celebrate the most precious gift we have, the priceless gift of freedom." All the while John Testrake was being driven home to Richmond, Mo., in his red Oldsmobile, he had something on his mind. He passed through small towns that had hundreds of yellow ribbons decorating telephone booths, mailboxes and trees. When he reached Richmond, he was greeted...
...some 700 pages, this is probably more than most people want to know about Mailer, especially when the talk winds down to details of book contracts and postponed deadlines. But there are priceless private scenes: Mailer asking his mother to judge which of five obscenities is the strongest, for example, and a sobering public confrontation when the author meets a hostile press after testifying for Jack Henry Abbott in the ex-convict's trial for the murder of Richard Adan, a Greenwich Village waiter. Mostly the book is grand gossip, a sort of Portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary...