Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blood and Money, Thompson...
...built it into my schedule. I do everything else around it," says Illinois Governor James Thompson, 40. The all-important "it" is his exercise routine. The 6-ft. 6-in., 210-lb. Governor makes three trips a week to the Nautilus health club in Springfield, Ill., to pump iron, jog, and work out on elaborate stretching machines. Says he: "This job is a man killer. You can absorb only so many budgets, meetings and job seekers without saying 'I've got to do something where I don't have to think.' " But after an hour...
...book is a tangle of anecdotes. Some are funny, some are interesting, but there's not nearly enough material here for even a magazine feature, let alone a full book. Reeves follows Clare Smith on her search for Hunter Thompson and recounts her ambiguous romantic entanglement with a young aide. But the insights a 17-year-old Ohioan brings to a national political convention are, well, the insights of a 17-year-old Ohioan. We follow her as she visits the Statue of Liberty; we follow her as she visits bars for the first time. Most banal...
...lesser-known wines of Burgundy--implying that maybe the reason nobody had talked to Hitler's sister was that she had nothing to say. But the final word on this book was probably inadvertently delivered by Reeves himself, when he tells of Clare Smith's attempt to get Hunter Thompson's autograph. After many abortive attempts, she finally gets it, and asks Thompson why he isn't writing Fear and Loathing, 1976. "Because of shit like this," Dr. Thompson screams, adding, "Now get out of here!" Shit like this does seem a pretty poor reason to write a book...
...Blood and Money, Thompson...