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...this moment in our checkered cultural history, when buff young hotties eat cockroaches on Fear Factor just to get on TV, it's comforting to think about HUNTER S. THOMPSON, somebody for whom extreme behavior was neither a pose nor a ploy. Thompson, who committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled A Savage Journey...
...Thompson's fearlessly subjective, expressive, propulsive journalistic style (in succeeding books like Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72) has been endlessly imitated but never equaled. That's because nobody else had Thompson's gift for describing altered states of mind with absolute lucidity. More important, no one else had his curiosity about this country and his righteous, inexhaustible rage at its numerous shortcomings, a rage that never cooled or hardened into cynicism. If he overindulged--and he did--it was in pursuit of a truth he felt he could find in no other way. "There is no honest...
Appreciation At this moment in our checkered cultural history, when buff young hotties eat cockroaches on Fear Factor just to get on TV, it's comforting to think about HUNTER S. THOMPSON, somebody for whom extreme behavior was neither a pose nor a ploy. Thompson, who committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled...
...R.N.s claim their campaign has contributed to a 10-point drop in Schwarzenegger's approval rating since September, although it still hovers at 55%. "They're spending a lot of money to vilify him," says press secretary Margita Thompson, "but it doesn't faze him." Yet when he attended a recent Sacramento film screening the very sight of a nurse in periwinkle-hued hospital scrubs unnerved his security guards, who pulled the ticketed customer out of her fifth-row seat and interrogated her for an hour before releasing her. "They treated me like I was a terrorist," says Kelly...
...Kurd who is Iraq's interim Foreign Minister. "Well, this is a chance to prove that--a chance to show that no position in the new Iraq, not even the presidency, is denied to a Kurd." --With reporting by Aparisim Ghosh/ Baghdad and Timothy J. Burger and Mark Thompson/ Washington