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Haunted by the memory of the Munich Games in 1972, when members of the Palestinian Black September Movement invaded the Olympic Village and killed eleven Israeli athletes, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (L.A.O.O.C.) has taken special measures to protect the teams' living quarters. At two of the three...
The bees buzzed among the blue petunias. The tourists gawked through the iron fence at the far end of the South Lawn. Warmth and tranquillity ruled. Reagan never shouted or scowled. With amiable demeanor and a gesture of good will, he was able to gather a varied political bouquet. Robert...
Altering facts to achieve a dramatic narrative is a legacy of the New Journalism, which was popularized in magazines and books in the 1960s and '70s and has been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties...
Interest in the drug habits of the rich and famous, of course, is now passe. The dreary repetition of reports detailing the dope usage of rock TV, and movie stars is now an established feature of modern newspapers, and moreover, society has virtually accepted wholesale the social use of many...
STILL, WIRED remains an immensely powerful book. John Belushi was at the top of his profession when he o.d.'d, and so were many of the people depicted in this book, a lot of whom were caught up in the same kind of lifestyle. Just as the politicians whom Woodward...