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America in the Eye of the Telescope Site
In Transit LOS ANGELES — At the long rented tables inside the door of Kennedy-for-President headquarters, three middle-aged ladies wearing Kennedy hats were selling bumper stickers and posters. It...
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Bernhard Goetz: Notes From Underground
The slow and tedious processes of justice brought Bernhard Hugo Goetz last week to a fifth-floor courtroom at 111 Centre Street and there, at least, the poor man was safe. Out in the great scary city,...
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Farewell to Fosse
Fosse was dead and after the urgent calls and the logistics of death, there seemed nothing really to do about it except go for a walk along Broadway in the midnight rain. This was the square mile of...
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Requiem for a City: Mexico’s Impending Earthquake
For days, the sirens never stopped. The ambulances came screaming down the Paseo de la Reforma, the sound preceded by cars packed with young men waving red flags, honking horns, demanding passage. The...
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The Spirit Strikes Back
The Spirit Strikes Back There was only one great comic book in the ’40s and ’50s, the days when comic books were in their first muscular prime. It was set in a place called Central City, which was...
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Donald Manes: End of the Road
I used to see him around town in the days when covering New York politics was still gaudy fun. “Hi … Donald Manes,” he would say, offering a thick hand, an uncertain smile. He told you his name each...
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White Line Fever
I. PROLOGUE Miami is one of those cities with its own peculiar odor and you smell it most distinctly during the hours before dawn. There is salt in the air, of course, a nod to the abiding presence of...
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The Sylvester Stallone Story: ‘Rocky’ KOs Movie Biz
INTERIOR HOLLYWOOD OFFICE DAY — THE PRESENT We are very tight on the sensual face of a young man. His mouth alternately curls, sneers, pulls tight in a grin as he talks. His dark eyes glitter, go...
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A Farewell to Machismo
Yeah, the Kid is his name And he’s too tough tuh tame, He’s the fastest, the meanest, the best! Jist blam! blam! blam! And he don’t give a damn! He’s the Savior of the West! He’s the Savior of the...
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Paul Castellano Hit: Capo Loses Mob Primary
After all the pictures were taken and Paul Castellano’s cigar butt had been retrieved by the cops and someone had found a piece of his skull the size of a half dollar lying near the entrance of Sparks...
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