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calls himself "Disc Jockey to America," suggesting that his stream of consciousness represents the whole nation on the couch. As for the story, and mercifully there is one, DJ. loves-hates his rich father, a victim of all alleged Texas hang-ups, notably insecure masculinity. Mailer plunks father, son and a couple of unholy Texas ghosts in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range on a safari in search of manhood. Naturally, they cheat: in orgiastically killing a wolf, numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer...
...resemblance ends there. With a range of from 12 ft. to 15 ft., the Mace's chemical stream (a tear-gas concentrate called phenylchloromethylketone) affects nerve ends and produces an instant shock and a choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been...
...professionalism that eventually forges a bond between them. As Poitier zeroes in on the murderer, Steiger's resentment turns to childish awe, and finally to wary respect. It is Poitier who refuses to bend. In one scene he slaps a white man across the face and looses a stream of anti-white venom...
...painting. Back in 1941, he wrote a play called Le Desir Attrape par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail). It was a jumble of absurdist fantasies, peo pled with characters named Big Foot, Fat Anxiety, Thin Anguish, Round End and Onion. There was no plot - just a splattering stream of Freudian chaos, a surrealistic carnival revue dwelling on food, money and sex. Le Desir was per formed twice, by experimental theaters in Manhattan and Vienna; shortly after the play was written, a cast headed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir gave it a formal reading in Paris...
...received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head of a believer, who frequently enters a trance-like state, begins to utter a stream of glottal syllables that Pentecostalists regard as prophetic speech...