Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the episodes are pure fantasy, but Thompson's first person account -- a combination of fastpaced action, immediate detail and extended dialogue -- lends them an air of realism or at least exaggerated fact. The element of fantasy gives an excuse to succumb to the book's outrageous humor, but the underlying mood is one of paranoia and repulsion. That is namely Thompson's "fear and loathing" of a Dream that mesmerizes people so completely, as they gorge their egos with dollars, that they are blind to social responsibility...
...seems that a group of men learned of a hoard of hidden gold. The cache was old Aztec gold, they insisted, 60% pure. Some of it was in the form of artifacts, the rest in gleaming gold bars. What is more, there were 100 tons of it in all. At the current rate of $120 per oz., their startling find would be worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. Trouble was, private individuals are not permitted to deal in gold without a license. The gold was buried on a military reservation in New Mexico, and the men (there...
...justification fails to relieve the queasiness Live and Let Die induces. Why are all the blacks either stupid brutes or primitives deep into the occult and voodooism? Why is miscegenation so often used as a turn-on? Why do such questions even arise in what is supposed to be pure entertainment...
...recognizably based on the life and death of assassinaaed AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive policy in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is perfect because this dream of a family man, whose actions are propelled by a pure form of bourgeois liberalism, is so unconscious an oppressor. Charles West...
...recognizably based on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive police in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is perfect because this dream of a family man, whose actions are propelled by a pure form of bourgeois liberalism, is so unconscious an oppressor. Charles West...