Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something should be said early on, in this newly-revived column of press clips, about the dean of press clips himself, Dr. Press Clips, the successor to Hunter S. Thompson for our favorite cult journalist. We refer, of course, to Alexander Cockburn--pronounced Coeburn. For our money (and this is one of his favorite phrases), he is the best around. His weekly columns in The Village Voice have an obsessive quality, achieving for the mid-seventies what Dr. Thompson did for the violence and insanity of the Nixon years. Nixon's debacle finished Thompson--it was a final irony...
...consciousness people of the 1960s were out doing their own thing." There are nuances here, and ironies, that Salisbury is overlooking. Not that he has stacked the deck--on the contrary, he is clearly trying to confront the most troublesome parts of his American experience: he seeks out Hunter Thompson, Tom Hayden, black people and bitter taxi drivers, all symbols of something hostile to his earnest mediocre, and it is not equal to the landscape he wants to describe...
...Hunter Thompson, at his Colorado ranch, sipped Wild Turkey and predicted more random violence for the seventies. On one level, Thompson said, we're totally doomed--"but I think there's a perversity in people that I kind of like and have great faith in." Salisbury must have listened patiently and seriously. He writes...
...there it all hangs out. Hunter Thompson, the man of doom, the cutting edge of the out culture of the 1960's, is an optimist on the survival of humanity...
Randy Millen triggered the red light for the go-ahead goal, then Thompson held on to the puck on a rush, deked a defenseman and slid the puck across the goal line. Brown scored again just before the buzzer to make it a one-goal game...