Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who may turn out to be the roughest and most combative of the commit tee members. Georgia Democrat Herman E. Talmadge scowled frequently but talked the least, while New Mexico Democrat Joseph M. Montoya seemingly had not always heard previous answers. Minority Counsel Fred D. Thompson was grimly aggressive and quick thinking...
...Thompson, grimly told the denomination's General Assembly in Omaha that membership has fallen to 2,917,000 -about where it was 18 years...
Ralph Steadman, as with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, provides perfect illustrations--snarling scratches that bear the same relationship to conventional caricature that Thompson's writing does to The National Review. These drawings are accompanied by photographs, some of which are interesting, but we could have done without the high-school yearbook technique of supplying "funny" captions to the pictures. There is some disadvantage to converting bi-weekly articles into a collection (only a couple of chapters were added) in that Thompson has to repeat himself sometimes. An extended interview with Rick Stearns and Dick Dougherty about convention tactics...
...THIS is bickering, because this book stands a good chance of leaving the umpteen other books that this campaign will spew forth holding their hats. There are, of course, probably valid objections to Thompson's tampering with the truth with such unabashed glee, but his metaphysical point of view is so seductive--so right, that it's hard to notice. It should by rights be simple to tell when Dr. Thompson is jettisoning the truth, yet the fact is that his fantasies are close to ringing true, not so much because he is being irresponsibly unclear, but because the campaign...
...more constructive moods, Hunter Thompson suggests that what a man like George McGovern needs is "at least one dark kinky streak of Mick Jagger in his soul." In the final analysis, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail makes it clear that something like this, something is necessary to beat...