Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What about woman lawyers? Thompson sputtered into his drink. "They're mutants, clones of some kind," he said...
Smoking a marijuana cigarette and taking periodic sips from a glass of whiskey, Thompson spoke rapidly as he answered questions for an hour and a half in front of what he described as a "seething rabble." Over 200 people were turned away from the door, and the speech was held up for 20 minutes while technicians wired sound for those left outside...
Wearing his characteristic fishing hat and sunglasses, Thompson complained about the glaring lights and fielded a variety of questions from the crowd. The queries ranged from drugs to politics, punctuated by frequent screams of "Adrenochrome," an obscure drug Thompson refers to in his book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...
Asked if he was happy about his piece in Rolling Stone magazine praising then-candidate Jimmy Carter last year, Thompson replied in the negative, and called the piece "the ugliest thing I've ever put in print...
...Thompson called President Carter "one of the three meanest men I've ever met. The other two were Sonny [a Hell's Angels leader now serving a prison sentence] and Muhammad Ali. That's a trio--I think Carter's capable of doing almost anything...